苏格拉底认为直接的，当面的交流可以强化某种方面的诚实，而文字却具有欺骗性，尤其是当其被广泛应用的时候。

Whereas immediate, personal contact helped foster a kind of honesty, Socrates argued that strings of words could be manipulated, particularly when disseminated to a mass market.

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如果预期该项发明可能广泛应用，并且希望该发明成为被广泛应用的独一无二的专利，则专利申请将是一项昂贵的事业。

This can be a costly undertaking if it anticipated that the invention may be widely useful, and the wish is frequently expressed for a single patent that would apply world-wide.

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塑料合成树脂被广泛应用到各种产品中，包括电线的绝缘层。

The plastic resin is used in a wide range of products, including electrical wire insulation.

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And so the program may do different things on different runs. We'll see a lot of that, because it's used a lot in modern computing.

因此程序会对不同的输入做不同的操作,我们会看到很多这样的情况，因为它在现代计算中被广泛应用。

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