But like many people of the day, it was a practice to snip out little mementos of events, and this particular coat suffered that same fate, in that Alfonso Don would clip pieces away from the coat and give it to people who came to visit and to see the coat.

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I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

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If you have a laptop and I persuade you to open it up for me and I take the pliers and kind of snip just about anywhere, your laptop will be destroyed but the brain is actually more resilient.

假如你有台笔记本,我成功地说服了你,让你把笔记本拆开,然后我拿钳子,在笔记本里乱剪一通,那你的笔记本肯定就坏掉了,但是大脑具有更好的弹性

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