There can be fighting without war but there can be no war without an organization that makes it something more than just plain fighting.

就算没有战争,争斗同样可以存在,但没有组织,便没有战争,组织使的战争的意义超出了单纯的争斗

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and then there's a plain house, which isn't a cultural house. That's just what I'm in.

还有一个普通房，不是文化房。我就住在那里。

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Just to be a little bit more plain about that.

说得更明白一点

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You'll notice I have the string with the number 1 MIT a string with MIT, and then it just a plain old number, not a string, again it didn't quite give me 3.3 for reasons we've talked before, a and now it in the list a.

你们可以看到这儿有个以字符串1,形式显示的数字1，1个字符串,还有一个非字符串形式的平常数字,结果并不是3。3，原因之前我们，已经讨论过了，还有一个在list中的。

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