University of Notre Dame anthropology professor Susan Blum wrote about this in a new book, "My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture."

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Because you won't want to do everything from scratch yourself, you want to be able to look at what is being created by somebody else and understand what is inside of there, whether it works correctly and how you can build on it This is one of the few places where plagiarism is an OK thing.

因为你们不会想无论做什么事情,都由你们自己亲自上阵，你们希望有能力读懂,别人创造的语言,并了解其中的内涵，运转的正确性和如何在其基础之上继续发展,这是为数不多的,合理的作弊行为之一。

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I think that, especially in the law, people try to... they take plagiarism very seriously.

我觉得，尤其是在法学院，人们试着……他们对抄袭的态度真的很严肃。

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Yet the same technology that makes it easy to find information to copy also makes it easier to identify plagiarism.

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Although we'll come back to plagiarism as a bad thing later on.

但是我们之后会回到,怎么做就算是作弊这个话题上来。

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Last week, we said colleges and universities in the United States define plagiarism as representing another person's work as your own.

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But there's also, some people think that anything you write is plagiarism in some way

但是也有，有的人觉得不管你写什么，从某种意义上来说都是抄袭。

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The teacher gets a report on any passages that are similar enough to suspect plagiarism.

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What do you think about plagiarism?

你怎么看待抄袭这个问题呢？

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Plagiarism is the act of representing another person's words or ideas as your own.

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I would guess that's where most plagiarism comes from.

我想大部分抄袭是这么来的。

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They also may discuss plagiarism with their students at the start of every term.

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Do people in your school take plagiarism seriously?

你们学校的人对抄袭的态度严肃吗？

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Professors at American colleges have tried many ways to stop student plagiarism.

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Plagiarism may also be a problem in other countries.

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Accidental plagiarism can sometimes result from cultural differences.

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We continue our discussion of plagiarism.

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More about plagiarism next week.

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