Closed timelike curves would make such a program impossible, as a simple thought experiment reveals.

封闭的时间型曲线会让这样进行的程序不复存在，就如同一项简单的思维实验所揭示的那样。

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Never forgetting his simple thought of wanting to provide schooling for the children of remote villages, Ma Wenzhong remained humble and down to earth despite becoming a big name.

从不忘记自己当初单纯的心，想为村里孩子提供可以读书的环境，尽管成为知名人物，他还是抱持那谦卑的理念。

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It had all been so very simple, he thought.

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He didn't actually convince me of that, but suppose we thought souls are simple, and we think simple things can't split.

他并没有说服我，但让我们假设灵魂就是简单的，并且简单的东西无法被分裂。

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You've got to squeeze absolutely everything out of it, and so it was ideal from the standpoint of teaching and was, it seems to me, also wonderfully galvanizing intellectually because it really did make people think: "look how intricate what I thought was simple turns out to be."

你得完完全全把东西都挤干净了，正因如此，从教学本身的立场来看，这就是理想状态了，而在我看来，它能使人如醍醐灌顶,因为它真的在引导人们思考：,“我想象得很复杂的东西原来是这么简单的一回事儿啊！“

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To interest me, a game must have a simple but thought-provoking premise that allows for deep strategy.

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Remarkably, the people who saw the description in the simple font thought the exercises would be twice as fast to complete!

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There is of course, no simple answer, but one thought is that the SEC has too many very different responsibilities.

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