If you take one of those individual grains of sodium chloride, look at it carefully, you will see the edges look like this.

如果你拿起,氯化钠晶体的一粒，仔细观察，你可以看到这样的棱角。

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I was bobbing my head, so maybe I better bob my head again and sure enough another piece of corn comes.

我一直在摇头晃脑,那我最好继续摇头晃脑,这样的话我就能再得到一粒谷粒

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Now, they're offered--You take the red one away and now they're offered a choice between the two remaining ones.

现在把红色那粒拿走,在剩下的两粒中选一粒。

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There's even eating meditation, you did it once with me, and I've done this in other places where you take a raisin and you put it into your mouth, and you take a minute to eat this raisin.

甚至还有食禅，我们一起试过一次，我也在别的地方试过,你拿着一粒葡萄干,放入嘴中，花一分钟时间吃掉这粒葡萄干。

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We remove a pebble, system expands.

移开一粒小石子，系统膨胀一点。

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So the inventor of the chess game said, "Ok. What I like is on the first block, first square, I would like one grain of rice.

于是象棋发明者说，“好吧，我希望，在第一个方格上，我想要一粒大米。

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One way that you can look for that gene that you want is by making the cut in your plasmid inside of a gene that encodes for some property like resistance to an antibiotic.

一种找到成功重组质粒的方式,是在质粒控制某种特性的编码区域切割,例如,对抗生素的抗性

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But he started--the pigeons started to think, effectively, what was it I did just before that last piece of corn came?

那些鸽子会想,上一粒谷粒掉过来之前我做了什么

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And the claim is that when you choose this, in order to justify your decision, you denigrate the one you didn't choose.

对这个行为的解释是，当你选这一粒时，为了表明你的选择是正确的，你会贬低第一次没选上的那粒。

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It turns out, to a tremendous degree, and you could imagine yourself in that situation, they choose this one, the one that wasn't the one they turned down.

结果发现，非常大的程度上，你们也可以想象实验对象是你自己，他们选了这一粒，不是他们第一次没选的那粒。

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Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

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Who cares? But then you ask them to choose between two of them.

这有什么用？你叫他们在两粒中挑选一粒。

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Or I have once been to a party and I found my shirt was misaligned, seriously misaligned, not one button but--Anyway, so--and so I feel when this happens I'm very immature.

或者有一次我去参加聚会,我发现我的衬衫扣错了，扣得很错，不只是扣错一粒纽扣，发生这种事时，我觉得太没面子了。

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Genuinely when I take raisins, I watch TV while I'm eating, this instead you just take one raisin and you really taste it, you taste all the flavor, and thinking what I'm missing everyday, that's what it is.

当我真的吃葡萄干时，我边看电视边吃，而冥想时，你只拿一粒,真正地去品尝，去体会其中百味，想想自己每天错过了什么，这才是真正的目的。

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Then we're going to take these plasmid vectors and we're going to somehow put them in contact with cells in such a way that the cells ingest the DNA and they use it.

然后要使这些质粒载体,以一种特别的方式与细胞接触,让细胞吞入质粒载体并使之表达

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So being a micro-organism that got a plasmid that give you resistance to an antibiotic would be a good thing - that gave you resistance to something that naturally killed cells like you in your environment would be a good thing.

假如一个微生物,因含有质粒而具有抗生素抗性,这实在是一桩美事--,在同样的环境下,普通细胞会被杀死,而你们这些具有抗性的细胞却安然无恙,这实在太棒了

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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