By experiencing these emotions, whether the ups and the downs, what you are doing is being, being a human being.

通过体会这些情绪，不论是起是落，你正在做的是，作一个人。

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Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

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You can't know just by looking at a pattern or a distribution or result whether it's just or unjust.

你不能仅凭分配格局,或分配结果,来判断其是否公平。

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Because you won't want to do everything from scratch yourself, you want to be able to look at what is being created by somebody else and understand what is inside of there, whether it works correctly and how you can build on it This is one of the few places where plagiarism is an OK thing.

因为你们不会想无论做什么事情,都由你们自己亲自上阵，你们希望有能力读懂,别人创造的语言,并了解其中的内涵，运转的正确性和如何在其基础之上继续发展,这是为数不多的,合理的作弊行为之一。

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A food frequency--by the way, you also have the issue of whether the particular twenty-four hours that a person is interviewed is representative of their diet overall, because you can imagine how much your food intake varies from day to day.

食物摄取频率,顺便说下,还有一个问题,就是在选取的24小时里,测试者,是不是对总体有代表性,因为你可以想象,每天事物的摄入量都是不同的

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To some extent, if we put you in an fMRI scanner and observed what you're doing in real time, by looking at the activity patterns in your brain we can tell whether you are thinking about music or thinking about sex.

某种程度来讲,如果我们对你进行,功能性核磁共振成像扫描,观察你的实时活动,通过观察你的大脑活动模式,我们可以看出你是想到了音乐,还是想到了性

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If something is good just because it is pleasurable, what does it matter whether you have sort of an abstract idea of whether it is good by someone else's sense or not?

既然令人喜爱的事物就是好的，那么何必在乎,别人对它的感受如何，这般抽象的观念呢？

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You got to assign a dollar value to know whether you want to prevent those deaths by banning the use of cell phones in cars.

你必须用金钱来衡量,是否需要禁止司机使用手机,来避免此类事件发生。

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