也会经常问自己，如果不这么做，会对我的任何或者结果有什么影响？ 当任务列表过长以至于没法完成时，排除不必要的任务就非常重要了。

Shaving unnecessary tasks is important when the list gets too long to complete.

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通常这块木头会上一层看上去很自然的清漆，或者什么漆也不上。

Usually the wood has a very natural finish, or no varnish at all.

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So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

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