少于这个人数，可能就没有足够的东西可供选择；多于这个数量，就会变得无法控制。

Less people than that, and there may not be enough things to choose from; more than that, and it becomes uncontrollable.

youdao

那么，你们当中一定比例的人将追随着这个人，但是如果在海滩上这个走过来将毛巾，及其他东西放在你旁边的这个人对你说，你可以照看以下我的东西吗？，然后走开后其他一些人？

So some percentage of you will go after the person but the percentage goes up dramatically if the person who has come and left their stuff on the beach says will you watch my stuff?

youdao

当我们使用“聪明”这个词的时候，我们是在暗示这样一种能力：这个人能学会别人学不会的东西。

We use the word "intelligent" as an indication of ability: a smart person can grasp things few others could.

youdao

If we torture this one,this thing,whoever it is, Linda is going to think to itself,I'm Linda.

如果我们折磨这个人，这个东西，不管它到底是谁，它将会心想，我是。

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Now, that seems like kind of a funny question because food is whatever a society eats.

这个问题看似滑稽,食物就是人吃的东西

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Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

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