And so you've got this tension between what might be evolutionarily wired impulses and the kind of social constraints that say this isn't good, this isn't appropriate, this is taboo.

因此，两者之间有冲突,一方面，从进化论角度来看，你有这样的冲动,但是从社会建构的立场看,这不合适，是社会禁忌。

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And you can't... If the brain was wired up like a personal computer, it would take you four hours to recognize a face, but in fact, we could do things extremely quickly.

你无法,如果大脑是像个人电脑那样组装起来的话,那你识别出一张面孔就得花上四个小时,但事实上,我们能够非常迅速地完成某些事情

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He argues that a bigger bank isn't wired to handle the data Simple does.

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And one of the things that we didn't talk about earlier, we're also going to be putting more money into school construction, because there are a lot of overcrowded schools and overcrowded classrooms that aren't wired for the Internet effectively.

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Let us explain: Apparently some regions in the South and West aren't as wired as midtown Manhattan, so a company called Space Data found a way to make money by repeatedly launching weather balloons with cellular transmitters called SkySites, and charging what must be astronomical fees for getting your cell-on in the boonies.

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