A chip is a small piece of something,like a chip of wood.

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There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

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Even those of you who've taken AP computer science or something similar perhaps recall that even just getting a piece of input from the user is ridiculously not obvious.

你们中上了AP计算机科学这门课,或者类似的课程的人可能还记得,即使只是从用户那里得到一个输入,也相当麻烦。

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But for the most part in our communities, everybody works, even if it's doing a little piece of something.

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At least they have a little piece of something back.

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The piece is something of a rollercoaster ride: Beethoven takes four voices, fully engaged and throbbing at high speeds, and drives them to the edge of a cliff before stopping them on a dime to listen to the vastness of silence.

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