After all, these three forms of progress have gone together in a number of states and civilizations.

毕竟，在许多国家和文明中，这三种形式的进步是并存的。

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Number words and their written forms transform our quantitative reasoning as they are introduced into our cognitive experience by our parents, peers and school teachers.

当我们的父母、同龄人和学校老师把数词及其书面形式引入我们的认知经验时，它们改变了我们的定量推理方式。

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Earth's surface is not made up of a single sheet of rock that forms a crust but rather a number of "tectonic plates" that fit closely, like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

地球表面并不是由构成地壳的单块岩石构成，而是许多紧密相连的“构造板块”，像一块巨大的拼图。

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So Platonic metaphysics gives us premise number one-- that ideas, forms, are eternal and they're non-physical.

柏拉图的形而上学论给了我们前提一,理念或者型相是永恒的,非现实的

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It won't surprise you when Plato looks for an example of something that is eternal and indestructible his mind immedialately starts thinking about the 3 platonic forms. Take the number 3.

当柏拉图寻求,某种永恒，不可毁灭的东西,作为证明例子的时候,你可能不会觉得奇怪他马上想到了,柏拉图形式，比如说数字。

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And that it does still exist in a number of forms around the world?

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As with many things quantum, B0 can exist in a number of forms.

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The proposed alarm could take any number of forms, from a buzzer, to a flashing light or bed shaking motor.

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