这个故事是《原谅设计：理解失败》中的一个片段。这本书既是给工程学献上的情书，也是对其工程故障的赞歌。

The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its breakdowns.

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这本书展示了当代物理学中最重要的几个理论，以及它们如何支撑我们的日常事务，如风险评估、逻辑学甚至是对美的理解。

The book explores some of the biggest ideas in contemporary physics and how they undergird such everyday matters as risk assessment, logic and even our understanding of beauty.

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通过这本书我们所描述了主要原理是，所有的行为都是神经活动的表达，这是从神经学角度对行为的理解。

Throughout this book we both document the central principle that all behavior is an expression of neural activity and illustrate the insights into behavior that neural science provides.

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And so, I'm going to talk about that after we have a better understanding of what's going on in the book.

因此我将在我们对这本书有了更好的理解之后,再谈论其历史。

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