Gould's view was thus that the evolution of human intelligence while not exactly an accident, since it was a response to a long series of circumstances, was certainly not a foregone conclusion.

古德认为人类的智力进化不完全是一个偶然的过程，因为智力的产生是通过长期对一系列环境的反应而形成的，当然不可能是预料中必然的结果。

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Certainly, waiting for hardware that may not come available for a long time, or even just a relatively long time, is not desirable.

的确，等待可能很长时间内都不可用的硬件，或者就算是相对较长的时间，都不是很理想。

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Paperbacks and public libraries made books cheap or free but certainly available to millions who might otherwise not have been able to afford them, and all that happened long before I was born.

平装本和公共图书馆使书籍低价或免费提供给那些买不起书的很多人，但这都发生在我出生很久前。

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