All right, but still it's a red light, right, and our hypothesis is that the red light has positive value in the sense that it means a certain thing. It means, we say, "stop."

它是一个红灯，我们假设红灯主动自带含义,它代表着，停“

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If you want to find out about their background or about how they feel about a certain thing,

如果你想了解他们的背景，或者他们对做某一件事有什么样的态度，

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Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

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Now, the other nice thing about viruses is not only are they very efficient but most viruses are specific for certain kinds of cells.

病毒的另一个绝妙之处在于,它们不仅高效,对特定细胞的特异性也很好

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And then if you get a certain number, plus 60 or something, the neuron will fire and it fires along the axon, the thing to the right.

如果达到了一定的数量,比如超过60之类的,神经元便会产生神经冲动,神经冲动沿轴突传递,右边的是轴突

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What's really prior is the car itself and talking about car stages is a certain convenience a kind of way of chopping up the fundamental thing of the car.

重要的是,汽车本身,谈论阶段只是提供便利,是一个把基本部分,切分开的方法。

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How definite, how certain you are as to the thing you're talking about.

你怎么来限定，怎么来确定，要根据你所谈论的东西。

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There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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For one thing, it has given us a richer understanding of certain learning mechanisms, particularly with regard to nonhumans.

一方面，行为主义使得我们能够,更加全面的理解某些学习机制，特别是非人类的学习机制。

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For certain purpose you can talk about slices but the fundamental thing is the salami.

因为某种目的你可以谈论它的部分,但根本的在于香肠本身。

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Still Milgram's work is interesting in many--for many reasons, in large part because he provides an illustration of the perfect situation for getting somebody to do a terrible thing and the perfect situation has certain ingredients.

虽然如此，他的实验还是有很多有趣的地方，很大程度上是因为他解释了,什么情况最有可能,让人做出可怕的行为,这个最有可能的情况包含几个要素。

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