"The point is, that what we are looking for is not just to continue on the same path, we want to leap into the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

We normally think of teaching as a synchronic process, you and I are in the same place and in the same time while we are learning, when in fact at least right now we are not.

我们通常设想教学是限于一时的过程，你我在同一地点,同一时间学习，但事实上至少现在就不是这样。

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Now unfortunately, the same companies are not around-- the companies that we had in 1871, hardly any of them even exist anymore.

不幸的是,与1871年的那些公司同类的公司,已经不存在了,这些公司几乎都不存在了

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Russia agrees with us on that,". "At the same time that we are very vigorously pursuing this track, we are aware that we might not be as successful as we need to be so we have always looked at the potential of sanctions in the event that we are not successful, that we cannot assure ourselves and others that Iran has decided not to pursue nuclear weapons,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

So one of the things I want you to notice here is that testing and debugging are not the same thing. When we test, we compare an input output pair to a specification.

这里我想大家注意的一件事,就是测试和调试是不同的两件事情,我们测试的时候，我们把输入输出,跟程序的规格说明书对比下。

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It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

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You could think of these as two companies producing bottled water and now we're going to get hundreds of letters saying not all bottled waters are the same, especially from Italians and the French, but never mind. Let's just pretend that they are.

把他们想象成两家瓶装水厂商吧,我估计我们会收到数百封信件,告诉我说不是所有瓶装水都是一样的,尤其是从意大利和法国寄过来的那些,无所谓了,就把它们想象成是同质的吧

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It's also interesting that given the same level of nutritional problems -too much fat, too little fiber, too many calories, whatever it happens to be -not everybody is affected the same way, and some population groups are especially vulnerable, so we'll talk more about that later as well.

另一点值得关注的是,相同的不良营养水平下,太多脂肪,太少纤维,太高热量,无论是哪一种情况,人们受影响的程度不尽相同,有一些人群特别容易受到伤害,我们待会也会讲到这点

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Lothar Meyer And I also want to mention Lothar Meyer in Tubingen who came up with the same classification scheme, but we are going to see in a moment why Meyer is not well celebrated today and the glory to goes to Mendeleev.

我也想提提在图宾根的,他也提出了同样的分类方法，但是我们一会儿将看到,为什么Meyer今天没有得到赞扬,所有荣誉都是属于门捷列夫。

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V2 And there's going to be some volume V2 and some volume V1, but are not necessarily the same. Especially since the pressures are different. we don't know yet about temperature so I don't know what to say about these volumes because I don't know what the temperatures' are going to do.

这里的体积会变成2,这里的容积是V1，它们不必相等,尤其是当压力不相等的时候,我们还不知道温度,所以我不能说这里的容积,是多少因为我不知道,温度会怎样变化。

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