The great American railroads were built by and large, for decades, by government subsidies, and a tremendous amount of corruption.

这几十年间,美国伟大铁路建起来了,这当然是是通过政府的支助,以及伴随着数不清的行贿受贿

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The price of paper fell and created opportunity for record-keeping, which was very important because that's what finance is built-- you need financial records.

纸价下跌,从而使得纸质记录成为了可能，这点至关重要,因为这是金融立身之本-,人们需要财务记录。

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They built roads for the army, but of course other people used the roads too.

他们为军队修建大路，当然其他人也能用路。

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His challenge to the poets is in a way the basis for the resentment that is built up against him in that Aristophanes and what he calls the earlier accusers have brought to bear.

他对诗人的挑战，某个层面来说,是对反对他的人所产生之愤恨的基础,这是亚里斯多芬尼斯及他所谓的,前代原告施加于他的。

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There's a lot of debate over how much is innate and what the character of the built-in mental systems are but there's nobody who doubts nowadays that a considerable amount for humans and for other animals is built-in.

尽管对于先天存在程度,以及内在心理系统所起的作用,还存在着很多的争论,然而如今的人们已经不再怀疑,先天因素在人类以及其他动物身上,所起到的重要作用。

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This slide shows one important feature of the physical chemistry of DNA that turns out to be very important for all of the technology that is built on DNA.

这张幻灯片展示了,DNA非常重要的理化特性,这些特性,对于所有以DNA为基础的技术很重要

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The reason for pulling this out is, what you're going to see is, that in most languages, all right, Python comes built-in with something that will check your static, sorry, your syntax for you.

讲这些的原因在于，你们将要看到的是，在绝大部分语言中，好的，Python中带着一些,会检查你的static的东西，抱歉，是你的语法。

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It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

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