He is not that well known these days but I think you will find that understanding what he has to say makes it much easier to understand where Berkeley was coming from.

在那些岁月中他名不见经传，但是我相信你很快就会明白，自从柏克莱登上舞台的那一刻起，人们的思维理解就变得更加简单了。

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But that's the sort of thing that happens in cinemas these days, when there's only one projectionist looking after umpteen screens.

但是，当一个放映员可以搞定所有的大屏幕的时代到来之后，这些事就真真切切地发生在电影院里了。

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But the thinking among evolutionary biologists these days is that what is mainly going on is a competition for genes, not goods.

目前进化论生物学家中有一种思想，认为起主要作用的因素是为争夺基因而进行的竞争，而并非为了财产。

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It appears to be useful in that way but I imagine it does more compelling things these days but I have not seen it myself.

那样看起来仿佛比较有效果,但我想这些天它非常引人注目,只是我自己没看到而已。

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If unfamiliar, these are the mechanical computer devices that you have to use to buy a ticket on the T these days and there was one of these really awkward but touching situations where it was clear that this woman had no idea, you know, what to do, how to get from here to here, and I could see her just staring at the turnstiles that you're supposed to go through to get into the subway.

如果不熟悉，这是机械计算机设备,当今你必须使用它们来买地铁票,它们实在是难操作的,这个令人同情的情况是,明显这位老太太不知道怎样操作，怎样从这一步到那一步,我看见她只是凝视着,地铁的栅门口。

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And most of these commands you don't actually need but this little caret symbol means control, so every keyboard these days has a control key so you hold that and hit X for instance to exit the program.

这里大多数命令你们都用不着,这个小插入符意味着控制，每个键盘都有一个控制键,譬如，当你敲入X时，就退出这个程序。

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The more reasonable ones allow that he is a gifted writer and economist, but also argue that these days his relentless partisanship is getting in the way of his argument.

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But he realizes that these days public employees are not the most popular people around and with budget cuts always looming he figures it would be a good idea to hedge his employment bets.

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But probably not that uncommon these days: I still read some conservative blogs, but I read a lot fewer than I used to.

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