When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.

在炎热的夏天开车时，你可能会在路上看到闪闪发光的水，但科学告诉我们，这其实只是海市蜃楼，是空气加热造成的幻觉。

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Look at history and you will see that practically no women have excelled in areas where spatial ability and mathematical reasoning are required, such as chess, composing and rocket science.

研究一下历史，你就会发现，事实上，在需要空间能力和数学推理的领域——比如国际象棋、作曲和火箭科学——没有出类拔萃的女性。

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Okay, not to dwell too much on math because you can very quickly bore someone in computer science by dwelling too much on math but it's useful even for logical constructs as we'll see with loops.

不要过于纠结于这些数学问题了，在计算机领域，你会很讨厌那些，在这上面钻牛角尖的人，但是对于那些，像循环这样的逻辑结构又是很有用的。

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We see that you know from everyone,they say their interest in science begins before the age of eleven.

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We're not going to have time to do them in this course, but if you take a class in the Political Science department on voting and on elections, on modeling elections, you will see that both of these have been modeled and discussed in great detail.

我们在这门课上就不去探讨它们了,但是如果你们选修了政治学专业的,有关投票与选举模型的课程的话,你们会发现这两个因素都可以模型化,而且都会有非常详细的介绍

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And if you ask the TAs in recitation tomorrow, they'll tell you that you see a lot of n log n algorithms in computer science.

如果你明天在复习课上问助教的话，他们会告诉你在计算机科学中,存在着非常多的n，log，n规模的算法。

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Also on hand was the monocle which was very much like something you'd see in a science fiction flick.

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And watching the experiments taking place in the lab, you can see the coming together of science fiction and technology.

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