Listen,what a strange noise for wood to make in the fire.

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see people with them, and what happens here is it's supposed to be those noise cancellation headphones. All they do is they take in the ambient noise that's around it, and there's actually battery in the headphones, that then produces waves that are going to destructively interfere with that ambient noise.

我从来没有用过这个,但你会看到有人带他们,它们可以作为消噪音耳机,它们所做的就是采入,周围的随机噪声，耳机里面是，有电池的，然后它能产生和,随机噪声相干相消的声波。

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Yes, but predicting what he does versus what Clinton will do or Bush is a bit too much noise Nobody would have predicted George Bush So Bill Clinton was right, voting for Barack Obama would be a roll of the dice?

我倒是想，但是要预测他的政策,比起预测克林顿，或者布什，太不靠谱了,当时谁又会想到乔治·布什是这样的总统呢,这么说，看来比尔·克林顿没说错，他说，给奥巴马投票等于在赌运气，是吗？

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And the fact that we're always facing some risk of death recedes into the background in the way that most of us don't hear background noise-- that what jumping out of an airplane does for you is it spikes the risk of death.

我们一直面对的某些死亡的风险,这种情况下变成了背景声音,因为我们大部分人都听不到背景的噪声-,而跳下飞机带给你的,是死亡的风险上升。

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