John's are much better, by the way, which is why Thursday will be a much better lay-- a better lecture.

顺便说下，约翰的笑话可能好些,这也就是为什么周四会是更好的一天-,你们听的是更好的讲座。

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Gokul says there's a difference between picking out individuals to lay down their lives and having a general law.

戈古尔说,挑选特定个体去牺牲，和依照通用法律挑选,是不同的。

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They're trying to lay out an argument which is consistent and continuous and keep surprise to a minimum.

他们试图自然地建立起一个论点,使之一致，使我们的诧异最小化。

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And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.

所以这部对话录的核心,是由一系列的讨论组成的,其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因,让人相信灵魂是不朽的

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This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

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So what I want to do is, I want to lay this out a little bit more formally as a game, since we haven't done anything like this for a week or so, we're going to play the game.

我想做的是,把这个安排得更正式一点 就像博弈一样,因为我们已经大约一个星期没有这样做了,我们将做这个博弈

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Some of this can be done if consumers make different choices in what they eat, but some can be silent changes too, so Frito-Lay taking the Trans fats out of their products and switching them with a healthier fat is a silent change that could have a positive impact on public health.

有些只要消费者选择其它的食物即可做到,但也有些变化是悄无声息的,菲多利将其产品中的反式脂肪,替换成更健康的脂肪就并未声张,这对大众健康有着积极的影响

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Gadamer acknowledges this, even insists on it as I say, but he doesn't lay stress on it because the gap that is implied in the need to be pulled up short is not a big one.

葛达玛承认，甚至坚持这点，正如我所说的，但他并不强调这个,因为“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,并不大。

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