Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

成年人谈论学习时，往往把它当作一剂良药：令人不快，却不可或缺，且对你有益。

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The transition from high school to college is a big one, and if you live at home you need to develop the same kind of independence you'd have if you were living away.

从高中到大学的过渡是一个大的转变。如果你住在家里，你仍需要培养与住在外地时同样的独立性。

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Parry realised that if you were setting out to create memorable poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad were exactly the kind of poems you'd create.

帕里意识到，如果你要创作出令人难忘的诗歌，《奥德赛》和《伊利亚特》正好符合你要创作的那一类诗歌。

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If you were to make that change you would find that the molecule now has completely different biological and chemical properties.

如果要做出这样的变化,你会发现,分子的生物形状,和化学性质完全改变了。

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And, not too many people, actually, if you talk to your grandmother or grandfather, there were some refrigerators that were actually made that used ammonia.

但是，并非太多的人，如果你会对你的祖父，祖母谈谈，或许有一些冰箱,实际上是用氨。

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They enforced complete sharing and if you belonged to a kibbutz you were completely stuck with the common consumption.

强迫人们绝对共享,如果你是某个集体农场的一员,就彻底受到共同消费的制约。

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In these golden days of boxing British and European titles meant something, and if you were to claim a world title you really were the best in the world.

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And if you were to look at a version of Goofus and Gallant on the topic of daily deals, Goofus would be played by Groupon (GRPN) and Gallant would be Restaurants.com.

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And if you were to say that something thousands of times more powerful than the one computer that thousands of us shared at MIT would fit in your pocket, people would think you were crazy.

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