So that we can talk about things being beautiful to varying degrees, but we never come across beauty itself in the actual empirical world.

我们可以探讨,事物的不同程度的美丽,但是我们从不在现实世界中,直接碰到"美丽"这个东西

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Of course, once you start thinking of it this way, it's natural to talk this way across a variety of things that the computer may be trying to do.

当然,一旦你开始用这种思维方式思考,你就会很自然地把这种思维应用到,电脑可能想要做的其它事情上

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These insurance contracts have come across gradually through time as we develop the theory and-- I'll talk about the growth of insurance and about some of the components of it.

随着保险理论的发展,保险合约逐渐被人们认同,下面我要讲一下保险的发展历程,以及其中一些值得关注的部分

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We are able to talk about the fact that two plus one equals three, but it's not as though we ever come across numbers-- number three itself--anywhere in the empirical world.

我们可与去探讨,二加一等于三的这个事实,但是我们不可能有一天真的碰到数字,在现实世界中碰到个叫"数字三"的东西

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