A very good example of that is what I've been telling you; that's really what happens. And here's another thing, if you go to the end of the Greek story, when you think about political theory, there's Plato.

我刚刚讲的就是一个很好的例子,确有其事,还有另外一个例子,当我们走到希腊神话描述的那个时代的尽头,当你思考政治学说时,柏拉图会给予你启示

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So writing is a very, very good example of helping you take an idea and making it a reality.

所以写作是一个很好的典例，它能帮助你把一个想法变为现实。

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Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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