He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

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We have not yet perfected the art of entering and exiting this classroom yet, we're still working on that. Raise your hand if you need notes and we'll make sure we get those to you.

我们目前还没有把,进出教室的技术做的很好，我们仍在做这件事,如果你没有拿到讲义请举手,我们会被把讲义发给你。

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And I make lots of lists, notes for myself.

另外，我还给自己列了很多清单和便条。

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I'm going to actually pause, periodically look at my notes and make sure I'm remembering how I think Plato understands the arguments.

我会时不时停下来,看看我的笔记,以确保,我记得我自己对柏拉图论证的理解

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Those notes are going to make no sense, I'm guessing, outside of the lecture, all right?

我猜那些笔记出了课堂，就没什么意义了？

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So I wanted to make sure you have a complete set for hydrogen in your notes.

我希望你们能确保,你们笔记上氢原子轨道图是完整的。

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And, in a rare moment of sort of personal self-reflection or self-reference, he notes somewhat drolly that the novelty of his ideas will make it difficult for them to find an audience.

虽然他很少对自己的思想,进行自我反思或自我参照，但他还是自嘲地写道,那些新奇的思想会让它们,很难找到读者。

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And if I did this, and again, don't scribble too much in your notes but if we just make it clear what's going on here, I'm actually going to delete these strategies since they're never going to be played I end up with a little box again.

如果我再进行一次,别在笔记上乱画,我们只是想知道最后会怎样,因为这些策略不会被人采用,所以我剔除掉它们,最后我得到了一个更小的方格

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