So silent and constant is the presence of the sea that I may go most of a day without observing it, or even registering that it is there.

大海是如此长久地沉默着，使得我一天中的大部分时间都没有注意观察它，或是甚至没有留意到它就在那儿。

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The idea was that it was impossible to know whether or not the cat was alive or dead without opening the box and observing it, and that until that happened, both realities existed.

中心思想是，除非打开盒子观察，不然就不可能知道猫的死活，而在打开之前，两种状况是共存的。

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In that case, only universes governed by the Standard Model, or something similar to it, could have the conditions needed for the emergence of physicists capable of observing it.

这样一来，只有符合“标准模型”理论的宇宙，或者与其理论相近的宇宙才能为物理学家提供观测的条件。

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After many years of gathering the necessary information, it became possible to learn longitude by observing the stars and the moon.

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And yet, when I try to do that, I'm observing it.

但我这么做的时候，我同时正在观察者。

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Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.So love and loyalty to God is the foundation of the Torah but Torah is the fulfillment of this love and loyalty: studying it and observing it and teaching it and transmitting it.

也要系在手上为记号，戴在额上为经文,又要写在你房屋的门框上，并你的城门上,那么对上帝的爱和忠诚是律法卷的基础，但律法卷,是这种爱和忠诚的实现：学习它，观察它,教授它，传播它。

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Even those committed to the ceasefire spend more time bickering about it than observing it.

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Yet the King floats above this adulation, observing it as if from outside his own body, gracious but distant, selfless in the Buddhist sense.

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But the people that believe -- this is my opinion now from observing it -- that the people that spent the most time with him were our construction workers.

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