It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.

它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。

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Suppose you could build a circuit with the following property: the input to this circuit would be any other circuit diagram.

假设你能用如下物品,建立起一个线路：,这个线路的输入设备,可以是任意一个其他线路的流程。

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The ordered swirl of houses and streets from this high angle sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.

从这个高的视角，看到的像漩涡一般,排列有序的房屋和街道，就像当初的印刷电路一样，以未曾预料的，令人惊讶的清晰感。

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