Smoking is a key example, it took America decades to mobilize after the catastrophic consequences smoking were clear, but when it did, American tobacco companies exploited overseas markets, particularly in the developing world.

吸烟就是一个重要的例子,美国人在吸烟的灾难性后果,已经明确的几十年之后,才采取行动,但在行动时,美国烟草公司已经开拓了海外疆土,尤其在发展中国家

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Tests show in the nineteenth century that people could type four or five times as fast as they could handwrite and there's no ambiguity because it's very clear what key was struck; whereas, handwritten--fast handwriting becomes impossible to read--or difficult.

通过测试显示，在19世纪,人们打字的速度是手写的4至5倍,而且也不存在字迹模糊的问题,因为键盘敲击出来的非常清晰;,而手写，尤其是快速手写根本无法阅读,或者说是很难阅读。

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If we could get clear about what the answer to that metaphysical question the key to personal identity we'd at least know what we needed to find out to answer the question: ? Is this one person or two?

如果我们能知道,那个形而上问题的答案,对于人格同一性的关键,至少我们会知道,我们要知道什么来得出答案：,是同一个人还是两个人？

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