Starting a business means spending a lot of time on non creative stuff. Getting to know rules and regulations that you, as a creative person, might not have any interest in.

创业意味着要在非创造性的事情上花费大量时间，要学习那些创造家从不感兴趣的游戏规则。

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Granted, he is a beginner, but he should know the basic rules.

的确，他是个初学者，但基本规则他应该懂啊。

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If you started playing around with the rules, you know, messing up the mathematical order, you could do serious harm.

如果你开始玩弄规则，你知道，打乱数学顺序，你可能会造成严重的伤害。

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But even if those efforts fail, it is too soon to know just how strong the new rules will be.

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Now, let me take a sidebar for about five minutes to talk about course administration, the administrivia things that we're going to do in the course, just so you know what the rules are.

现在，让我用大约五分钟的边角料时间,来说说本门课的基本信息,也就是我们需要在课上做的事儿，好让你们了解一下规则。

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I know it's boring, but we need to do it so you know what the ground rules are.

我知道这很无聊，不过为了让你们了解规则,我们必须得做这个。

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"First of all, I would expect the manager of England to know the rules and know that it is illegal to do that, because the player is under contract, " said Moyes.

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This is not about MPs that broke the rules - we all know the rules weren't good enough.

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Now that you know the rules, here are some questions you may be asking.

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