I might not do the thing at the top of my list. But in order to procrastinate on that dreaded item, I crank through a bunch of other things on my list.

我也许不会做每日必做事情列表顶端的事情，但是为了不做我不想做的事情，我把列表上其他的事情都做完了。

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That is the sort of thing that children do: habitually mispronounce someone’s name in order to irritate them.

这是孩子们所做的那种事情：故意读错某人的名字，以把他们惹恼。

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And the principle of charity you observe when you argue in order not to do the irrational thing and to assume the other person is wrong rather than assume that you have misunderstood them.

你们看到的清晰性的规则，当你们为了不做非理性的事而争论时，并假设另一个人错了，而不是假设你误解了他们。

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Third thing to notice is, there's a flow of control. The order which these things are going to happen.

第三件事情就是,我有一个控制流,这些事情有个要做的先后顺序。

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Because I could've built that in, it says if you change the value of this thing, by the way you need to change recompute those other values in order to make this hold up.

我想要大家通过定义好的方法，来改变实例的值了,因为我可以把这个功能，内置到方法里面去,它的意思就是如果,你改变一个值。

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The only thing I need to say in order to distinguish this particular part of the chemistry of a DNA or an RNA molecule is to say 'it's DNA or its RNA', and 'what the base is'.

想要区别DNA和RNA,这两种化学结构不同的核酸的话,我只要说明它是DNA还是RNA,它的碱基是什么就够了

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