If your roommate comes in and starts trying to tell you facts about the human digestive system, " you say, "Not now."

如果你的室友跑过来开始试图,告诉你有关人类消化系统的事实，你说“现在别说“

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But the mere fact that they would change your behavior doesn't yet tell you whether they're reason-generating facts.

但仅仅是它们会改变你的行为这个事实,并没有告诉你它们是否是产生原因的事实。

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- Just to give you another several fun facts -- and next week, once we've looked at your Problem Set "Zero Submissions," which, if you haven't filled it out yet, you'll see asks a few demographic questions, a few geek-type questions so we can get a sense of the students.

我给你们分享另外几个有趣的事实-,在下周，一旦我们看到你们的习题集上是,“零个意见书“，如果你们还没有填写那个习题集的话，你们可以问一些人数统计方面的问题，或一些古怪的问题，那样我们就能对学生有个初步的了解。

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You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

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Possibility number two is the facts change your behavior by giving you a reason to behave differently.

第二种可能是事实改变了你的行为,通过给了你一个改变行为的理由。

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It's not that the facts about death give you reason to stay in your room and sulk.

不是说关于死亡的事实,给了你呆在房间里生气的理由。

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After all, how can it be appropriate to disregard, to put out of your mind, facts?

毕竟，不理会，不去想事实，怎么可能是，合适的？

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It's just that the facts about death cause you to stay in your room and sulk.

而只是说关于死亡的事实,导致你呆在房间里生气。

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So the facts could be things that would give you reason to change your behavior.

所以事实可能会给你理由,改变你的行为。

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And your roommate says, "Inside the envelope are facts about this milkshake that if--I promise you it is indeed the case-- if you knew these facts, " you would not drink the milkshake anymore."

而你的室友说，“在信封里面是关于奶昔的事实,如果，我保证里面是事实-,你知道了这些事实，你就不会再喝奶昔了“

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