Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

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Unsurprisingly, you've got the ability to do decent work in this class and most of you have the ability to do good work, and some of you have, a fair chunk of you have, the ability to do excellent work, though it may take some work on your part to get to that point.

不奇怪，你已经有能力去做极好的作业,并且大多人有能力做好作业，一些人有，是大部分人有，有能力去做极好的作业，尽管这需要花费一些功夫才能做到。

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