Words like "acid", "gravity", "electricity" and "pendulum" had to be invented just to stop their meetings turning into an endless game of charades.

像“酸”，“重力”，“电”和“钟摆”这些词不得不被发明出来，只是为了防止他们的会议变成一场无止尽的字谜游戏。

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And when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read "aggressive" or "non-aggressive" words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring?

当实验者记录下游戏玩家从列表中阅读“攻击性”或“非攻击性”词汇所花的时间时，我们能确定他们实际上在测量什么吗？

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To rouse the passions of those he has disappointed and to allay the fears of those he has turned wary. He will need, in other words, to change the game again.

为了使那些对他失望的人群振奋起来，使那些因他而变得小心翼翼的人解除心防，奥巴马必须再次改变游戏规则。

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One is based on Scrabble, the board game where players try to form words from letters with different point values.

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So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

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Justice, in other words, for Thrasymachus is a kind of sucker's game; obeying the rules that really benefit others largely because we fear the consequences of injustice.

换言之，正义对，Thrasymachus，而言是一种恒输的游戏;,服从统治者,有利于他者,主要是我们害怕不公的后果。

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In other words, game designers have been stealing film makers' clothes for years.

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Before Zynga acquired the game, OMGPOP also added the ability for the company to add new words to the game on-the-fly, allowing it to add terms related to pop culture and news events.

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The Boston-New York rivalry is one of the fiercest in sports, and the teams had their heated moment in the first meeting this season, when Anthony was suspended a game by the NBA for following Garnett to the Celtics' team bus to confront him after they exchanged words during the game.

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