例如，当我们徒步走在空旷的乡村上的时候，我们发现使用地理方位非常有用。 但是当我们描述小规模的空间时，我们完全以自己为中心的坐标系进行交流。

We find it useful to use geographic directions when hiking in the open countryside, for example, but the egocentric coordinates completely dominate our speech when we describe small-scale spaces.

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如果是在一个习惯左手系的星球上，那样我们的习惯会完全相反，就是这样了。

If we had been on the planet with left-handed coordinate systems then actually our conventions would be all the other way around, but they are this way.

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太阳系的第一张全景图向我们揭示了太阳系的边缘和我们预测的完全是两码事。

The first global map of the solar system reveals that its edge is nothing like what had been predicted.

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And a lot of the strikes that you see in high schools and in-- I better get to my lecture,but-- you see in high schools and even in middle schools, have to do with the State,somebody saying, well we're going to take away two-hundred teachers in your department, or we're going to maintain a curriculum that doesn't seem to make any sense.

在高中里可以看到很多罢课,我最好回到正题,但还是再讲一点,在高中,甚至在初中有很多罢课,为了反对政府的某项规定,比如说要在这个系减少两百个教师,或者主张一份,完全不合理的课程安排

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