The Aufbau Principle comes from a German word which means it is essentially construction or building, build-up principle.

构造原理原来自一个德国词汇,意思是基本的构造,建筑，或修建原则。

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What are the fundamental building blocks of a person?

人的基本构造是什么

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So, what I want to do is start off small, with the smallest interesting part of the brain and then get bigger and bigger and bigger talk about how the small part of the brain, the neurons, the basic building blocks of thought, combine to other mental structures and into different subparts of the brain and finally to the whole thing.

我将从细微入手,从大脑最细微的部分开始,然后逐步扩大,来谈谈大脑的基本单元,也就是神经元,也是思考的基本构造,是如何组成其他心理结构的,又是如何形成不同脑组织的,最终构建出了整个的大脑

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So a person has two basic building blocks.

所以一个人有两种基本构造

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