The whole education, culture, civilization teaches you to be outstanding, and Tao says: Don't be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.

整个的教育、文化、文明教养你出类拔萃，道说：不要出众，放下一切出众的东西，只是普通，只是简单。

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What Murphy is really doing is using the Earth and the moon as his laboratory, because the questions he is asking can't be answered in an ordinary lab. The tools just aren't big enough.

Murphy真正要做的事，就是把地球和月亮作为自己的实验室，因为他不可能在普通实验室找到答案，没有这么大的实验工具。

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And when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse.

即使是道明情况，也不要和盘托出，就像在日常交往中不要暴露自己真实的想法一样。

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It could be positive or negative or complex, but it's just an ordinary number.

它可以是正数,负数或者复数,但它仍然只是一个普通的数

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