A curve looks like it's "flowing" because our human inclination is to extract order from the world, even if there's no real order at all.

曲线看上去就像在“流动”一样，这是因为我们人类有从周围世界里提取秩序的倾向，即使根本就没有什么秩序。

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If you assume, and we do, that these operations are necessary to keep people alive, then you have to accept those kinds of compromises in order to keep the aid flowing.

如果你设想，我们确实是这样认为的，这些运作需要保障人们的声明，那么你就不得不接受这样那样的妥协以保持援助的畅通。

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It also minimises the pumping losses caused by no longer having to "throttle" (ie, strangle) the air flowing into the cylinders in order to control the engine speed.

这样还把由于不必再为了控制引擎转速来抑制空气流入引起的抽吸效应的能耗最小化。

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Again,just to remind you,in order to get the intuitions actually flowing, what I'm going to do once I've separated the body and the personality this way, is torture one of the end products.

为了让你们得到最直观的感知，一旦把肉体和人格截然分开，我们便要折磨其中一个最终产物。

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