He thinks about examples, he surveys examples and tries to extract a kind of metaphysical principle from this.

他思考一些例子，调查研究它们,试图从中提取一种,哲学原理。

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So, anyway. Okay. But now, that modernist tradition is something that Nabokov owes a lot to, but he always tries to distinguish himself from it. For Nabokov, the highest value is originality.

好吧，不管怎样，但现在，现代主义传统,很大程度得归功于纳博科夫，虽然他一直试图把自己,从中区别开来，对纳博科夫而言，最高尚的价值是独创性。

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First, hopefully your blood clots and so that stops you from dying from loss of blood there, but your body tries to heal this wound that's created.

首先,顺利的话血液会形成凝块,使你不至于流血而死,进而身体尝试着去愈合创口

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And it tries to find the shortest way, subject to those constraints, to get from Point A to Point B. And there are many, many other instances of this kind of thing.

然后谷歌地图开始寻找，满足这些条件的从A地到B地最短路径,还有很多这样的例子，明天我们会再复习一遍这些内容。

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