我们怎么知道一件事物或一个过程比另一样更复杂呢？

How do we know one thing or process is more complex than another?

youdao

我做的第一件事物是给她一个名字。

The first thing I did was to give her a name.

youdao

我想要只见到一件事物，马。

I wanted to see only one thing, the horses.

youdao

The very fact that I need to know it in particular is what makes me need to know it negatively.

认识一件事物需要知道,它不是什么。

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And I'm fascinated by the way that even at that elemental point, the religions come in, and like the Tower Babel confuse our speech.

我还为一件事物着迷,那就是宗教最初产生的时候，就像巴别塔扰乱了我们的语言。

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Egypt being the best example, so that no longer was war possible, but the flip side of that is, there was also another thing that was impossible -- freedom.

埃及就是最好的例证,所以当和平年代到来时,其对立面必然显现,即总有另一件事物,变得难以实现,那就是自由

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