如果你有一个神奇的显微镜，可以看到自然界最小尺度上的运作方式，你或许会深感意外。
If you had a magic microscope that could see how things work on the tiniest scale in nature, you might get a bit of a surprise.
然而，如果你在岛屿这样小的尺度研究这个问题，结果看起来会完全不一样。
However, when studied on the smaller scale of islands, the findings showed something completely different.
这是因为从定义上来讲，对某一概念缺乏了解会桎梏实践，所以对一件好事来讲，只有当你做过了头，你才能充分了解整个问题的尺度。
By definition, not knowing about a principle constitutes a massive underdoing of it, so you haven't bracketed the problem until you find yourself in an excess of a good thing.
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