This God is one who brings things into being, whether it's a cosmos from chaos, or now a new nation from a band of runaway slaves.

这个上帝使是一切得以存在的根源，不论是由混乱而来的宇宙秩序，或者是由一帮逃窜奴隶而来的新国度。

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To some degree, it's harder to imagine the worst thing than to statistically sort of figure out the middle band.

一定程度上，预测最坏的结果,要比以统计的方式预测出中间值更为艰难。

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The bass drum and the tuba or in the marching band, it would be a sousaphone they would call it, the bass drum and tuba.

该是低音鼓和低音号,军乐队中,该是他们所说的苏萨大号,低音鼓和低音号

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If you think about it like a rubber band, maybe the more we can stretch the rubber band the better; but if you stretch too far and the rubber band snaps, that's not good, that's bad.

你可以想象一个橡皮筋,也许把它伸展得越长越好,但是你把它伸展得过长,以至绷断,那就不好,那很糟糕

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The brain perceives all of this complex information and it processes it and it extrapolates from it the beat, but again nobody in music-- except the bass drum player in a marching band-- nobody in music ever does anything except just play the beat.

我们的大脑感知了所有复杂的信息加工后,推算出了拍子,不过没有人,除了军乐队的低音鼓手,没有人在音乐里仅仅只是打鼓点

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So Boston money was probably pretty good because of the Suffolk System but if you tried spending New York money in New Haven Band Note Reporter they would get out the Bank Note Reporter and put a discount on it.

所以，尽管由于Suffolk系统使,波士顿货币很值钱,但是如果你试图,在纽黑文花纽约纸币,他们将拿出,并且折换纸币的价值。

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