As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

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In particular functions that operate on the data, perhaps on other data as well. The key idea here is to bind together the data and the functions that operate on that data as a single thing.

特别是处理数据的函数，也可能处理其他数据,这里的关键思想就是,将函数和操作数据的函数。

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Hobbes, as we see, sometimes writes as a sort of scientist or proto-scientist for whom nature and one supposes the laws of nature operate with the same kind of necessity as the laws of physical attraction.

霍布斯有些时候,像科学家或者原科学家一样写作,对他来说，自然和自然法,与另一种必需法则,即物质吸引的法则共同作用。

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