It's a pseudo-initiative seminar, which is a special course that Princeton University has our interests in a certain topic and are able to find a professor who is willing to teach and able to teach that topic.

课程是源于一个匿名研讨会，它是普林斯顿大学提供的一门特殊课程,学生们可就自己对某一话题的兴趣，has，for，students，to…,寻找那些愿意,并且能够教导该方面知识的教授。

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But they don't I don't know, it's just -there isn't enough initiative in the world, not many people do it.

但是他们没有这样做,我不知道,也许只是,主动性不够,没什么人这样做

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It's really a technology initiative that's aimed to index the "dark" web or the hidden web, because according to computer scientists, right now the conditional search engines only index about 1% of the information on the Internet.

这是一项,致力于将暗网,或隐藏网页纳入索引的技术创新，根据计算机科学家的统计，条件式的搜索引擎只将,互联网上1%的信息纳入了索引。

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And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。

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There is a very big-- one of the largest clinical trials that the U.S. Government ever did was called the Women's Health Initiative, and there were several purposes built into this particular study, but what it did was it took post menopausal women and randomly assigned them to different dietary conditions.

有一个很大的,美国政府曾经做过的,一个最大的临床试验,叫做"妇女健康倡导计划",这项研究有几个特殊的目的,研究主要是将更年期的妇女,随机分配至,不同的饮食环境中

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