So, if you were to lose half your brain, the other half can actually do a lot but some things are more prevalent and more powerful in one part of the brain than the other And I want to show you a brief film clip from "Scientific American" that illustrates the differences between the hemispheres, but before doing that,I want to provide some introductory facts.

如果你失去了半个大脑,另外一半其实也可以完成很多功能,但是某些功能是存在单侧化优势的,我给你们播放一段短片,来自于《科学美国人》,它解释了大脑两半球的功能差异,但在此之前,我想先做一些介绍

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Schistomiosis, which is a worm that lives in river waters, causes terrible diseases that are still prevalent in many parts of the world.

血吸虫,是一种生存在河水中的蠕虫,可以引起严重疾病,并仍在世界上众多地区广泛流行

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What the Market Revolution was, in so many ways, was an engine, a tremendous Charles Sellers has written a famous book on this it was a tremendous engine for what became arguably the most prevalent idea of the entire nineteenth century in America, and that's the notion of progress.

在很大层面上,市场革命,就是一个巨大的发动机,查尔斯·塞勒斯,曾经为此写过一部书,市场这个巨大的发动机,它带来了十九世纪最流行且有争议的看法,即,对进步的观念

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