But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.

所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。

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but you kind of can't avoid "Britain's Got Talent"

但是你不可能不接触到《英国达人秀》，

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In the American Civil War,there was a draft, but you could avoid it by hiring somebody to take your place, if you were rich enough.

在美国内战期间，曾有过强制征兵，但是你可以让人代替你，如果你足够有钱的话。

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So think about, I don't want to push this too hard but think about other games where people are communicating to fail, to avoid a failure of coordination.

我不想把问题说得太严重,我们不妨举一些沟通失败的博弈案例,或者说努力避免沟通失败

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Now many of us are not investors or at least would like to avoid investing with myself included But in the most, this is the most ubiquitous economic decision out there.

我们中许多人都不是投资者,或至少像我一样不想涉及到投资行业里面,但在大多数情况下，这却是经济决策中最普遍的。

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Hobbes believed, on the other hand, that the overriding human fact, the overriding motivation of human behavior, is largely negative, not the desire to do good, but the desire to avoid some evil.

另一方面，霍布斯认为，人类最主要的行为，人行为的最主要的动机，在很大程度上是负面的，并不是为了做善良的事，只不过是为了避免罪恶的发生。

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But if you avoid all of these minutia and focus really just on the idea, it looks like what was a blue say block, a so called statement, is now going to be something called printf where the F happens to stand for formatted.

但是如果你抛开所有这些繁琐的细节，把注意力集中到,它的编程思想，那么它只不过一个蓝色的say程序块，是一个声明,即所谓的printf函数，其中的f是,用于格式化输出。

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But for Hobbes, we enter into society not in order to fulfill or perfect our rational nature, but rather to avoid the greatest evil, namely death or fear of death, at the hands of others.

但是霍布斯认为，我们进入社会,不是为了实现或完善我们理智的本性，倒不如说是为了避免巨大的罪恶而已，也就是死亡或对死亡的恐惧，掌握在别人手里。

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But it doesn't matter what you choose, you can't avoid dying.

但是不管你的选择是什么，你都无法避免死去。

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