The structural moment of concentration on the code for its own sake cannot be avoided, and literature necessarily breeds its own formalism.

集中在代码上的结构瞬间,因为它本身的原因不可避免，文学必要地导致了它自身的形式主义。

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And I am able to vary the voltage on the plates making this for argument's sake negative and this for argument's sake positive.

我可以改变两个板子上的电压,为了论证，这个是负电,这个是正电。

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On the vertical axis I'll put two vertical axes in, just for the sake of things on the vertical axis I'll put my expected payoffs.

坐标系的纵轴,由于种种原因,我花了两个纵轴,纵轴表示我的预期收益

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This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

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