I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

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So I think that gay marriage and for gay families, it's actually a very good thing in our society

所以我认为同性恋婚姻以及同性恋家庭对社会是件好事情，

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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And that in some sense they would live on in this society which they had improved and made a better thing.

因而在某种程度上来说他们在今天依然活着,活在这个他们所改良的美好世界

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And it's--you might think, " "All right. The life of a waiter is not the worst thing in the world."

而这时，你可能会想，“好吧，侍应生的生活又不是这世上最坏的事情“

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I'm thinking about a problem, I'm going to show you an example in a second, first thing I'm going to do is say, what is the thing that's going to change every time I run through the same set of code?

我要解决一个问题，我马上会让大家看一个例子，第一件我要做的事情就是,弄明白每次运行同样的指令集时,每次都会改变的东西是什么？

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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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Also, the filing cabinet-- that sounds like a minor thing-- was invented in the 1890s.

还有档案橱柜-,听起来很微不足道-,是在19世纪九十年代发明的。

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This isn't really a formal thing I put in place.

这不是一个正式的规则。

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Stopping growth in tumors can be a very beneficial thing.

阻断肿瘤的生长是一件十分有益的事

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So, using the terminology of chemists, which is a good thing to do, because in this course we are all chemists, we want to make sure that we're not using just the physical description of the numbers, but that we can correlate it to 1 0 0 what we understand as orbitals, and instead of 1, 0, 0, 1s we call this the 1 s orbital.

我们最好学会，利用这些化学术语，因为我们这课,就是关于化学的，我们,不仅要知道，这些数字,的物理描述，还要能把它,和我们知道的轨道联系起来，我们叫它。

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This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

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Because at this point, as in the partnership game, which there was a similar thing, as in the partnership game where the best responses intersect is where Player 1 is playing a best response to Player 2, and Player 2 is playing a best response to Player 1.

因为这一点,与合伙人博弈的情况一样,两者的情况是很类似的,合伙人博弈中最佳对策曲线的交点处,参与人1采用了回应参与人2的最佳对策,参与人2采用了回应参与人1的最佳对策

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Fat is not all that much different, but one thing that's happened is the type of fat has changed a lot, and so people are eating less fat from plant sources and more fat from animals sources That's where the saturated fat comes in and high saturated fat intake is not a good thing.

脂肪摄入量相差无几,然而脂肪的种类却发生了很大变化,人们越来越少从植物中摄取脂肪,而更多是从肉类食物中获得,肉类食物中含有饱和脂肪酸,而过多地摄入饱和脂肪酸是有害的

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so I like to wear them. And it's quite, it's a familiar thing in this area as well.

所以我喜欢穿它们。在这个地区，这是件平常的事。

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which creates a lot of jobs for the people in the community which is a good thing.

这(工程)为社区的人们创造了大量的就业机会，这是一件很好的事情。

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