Businesses of course can't actually invest in the lottery -that would be contrary to the terms of their loan -but they can do similar things.

当然了,企业是不能拿贷款去买彩票的,这会有悖于贷款的合同条款,但他们可能会去做类似的事

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And I've seen other similar things where commercial photography, photo journalism and all that stuff is up there,

我也见过很多商业摄影师，记者摄影师，等等，都是

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All things being equal, the more similar the more likely you'll find each other attractive.

如果其他因素相同，越相似,越容易相互吸引。

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They might be capable of forming all of the cells of the nervous system; they might still have some potency to form other things that are similar to the nervous system.

它们也许可以生成,所有神经系统的细胞,也许还有一些生成和神经系统类似的,其他东西的潜能

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And one of the things that's striking is, how similar the experience is from person to person and from culture to culture-- that they've got some notion, as they were dead on the operating table, of leaving their body.

而其中最振奋的就是,不管一个人的,生活经验及文化背景,有多相似,他们都能感受到,当他们在手术台上死去,身体已经逝去

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And then I'm going to do a similar thing to print things out. But would the solver do?

然后我还是一样要把结果输出来,那solver做的是什么呢？

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You want to use "it's like" sometimes to compare things that are not similar and sometimes to compare things that are similar.

你可以用这个句型来比较相似或者完全不同的东西。

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