One of my purposes in writing this book is to give readers who haven't had the opportunity to see and enjoy real mathematics the chance to appreciate the mathematical way of thinking.

我写这本书的目的之一是让那些没有机会看到和享受真正数学的读者有机会欣赏到数学的思维方式。

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He assisted me in writing this book.

他辅助我写这本书。

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He knew my purpose in writing this book.

他知道我写这本书的目的。

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Smith said he was able to read the strange writing in this book and put it into English.

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Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

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Usually we write in journals, but I allow them to their writing in this book.

通常做法是写日志，但是我让他们在这个本子上写作。

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My only intention in writing this book was to defend the princess and stand in her corner.

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But something has also been lost along the way, perhaps because that earlier grave subject-matter is lacking or perhaps because the writing in this book is simply slacker than before.

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In the process of writing this book, I learned a lot.

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