First of all, a lot of people don't seem to even grasp that basic point that you buy stocks for the dividends.

首先,很多人不明确这一基本点,买股票就是为了股利

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There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

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And the basic idea was that we had some sort of a line and we knew the answer was somewhere between this point and this point.

去学习的二分搜索是有联系的,这种方法的基础思想,是我们有一个线性的序集,我们也明白答案在其中的某一段区间。

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Again, the point today is not for you to understand in detail all these mechanisms but to understand how those basic concepts we talked about last time, basic concepts of cell communication if arranged in the right kinds of ways can lead to complex outcomes.

再说一次 今天的重点不是,要你理解这些机制的细节,而是借此理解上节课讲的基本概念,细胞通讯的基本概念如果安排得当,可以产生非常复杂的反应

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But there's nothing mysterious about death from the physicalist point of view, at least about the basic idea of what's going on in death.

但是死亡没有什么神秘可言,从物理主义的角度来看,至少死亡的基本定义是不神秘的

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