We can't answer that question until we are clearer about what does it take to have identity across time.

我们无法回答那个问题,除非我们知道,人格要穿越时间需要什么条件。

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You want to write the specs so that everybody does in fact know what this piece of code is doing, and you're writing it each time around.

但是你得养成良好的习惯和编程风格,你得撰写规范说明从而保证,每个人都知道这段代码是干什么的。

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We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

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When the Financial Accounting Standards Board listens to what corporations are saying and helps them-- it adjusts these standards from time to time but it does have definitions that have to be maintained.

财务会计准则委员会,听取公司的意见并协助他们...,并且适时调整标准,不过有些规则始终如一

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