For him, and I quote him, "Fortune is a woman and it is necessary to hold her down and beat her, and fight with her."

他认为,"命运就是女人,必须控制并将她打倒在地,与其斗争"

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In some sense, strictly speaking they shouldn't be necessary because the fact that my specification starts with an assumption, says, hey you, who might call square root make sure that the things you call me with obey the assumption.

在某种意义上严格的来讲,它们不是必要的,因为我已经对假设做了声明,也就是说，如果你要调用我的，求平方根的函数,请确保你传递给我的,参数满足假设条件。

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Because once you actually push people,to pin them down, what do you mean by it,you end up with something that's either just not true, or not interesting,or not necessary, or not particularly unique to death.

因为你一旦逼问他们这到底是什么含义，得到的东西既不会是真实的，也不会是必要和有趣的，也不会是对于死亡来说独特的。

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