Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.

在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。

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In fact, when I first started attending law school, a friend of mine came up to me after the second day of class,

事实上，当我第一次进入法律学校时，第二天下课后一个朋友过来找我，

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I found all these databases of this information, although this was after the fact.

我发现了这些信息的数据库，尽管这有点事后诸葛亮。

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We've talked--we spent a lot of time talking about that--the most popular music, virtually all of it--although after the fact people try to write it down.

我们说过，我们花了很长时间讨论过，大部分流行乐　,可以说是所有流行乐，虽然事实上人们确实会想把它写下来。

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The only history that you would have had fifteen years ago would have been those funds that produced great returns, so it's all identified after the fact.

你只会看到在这15年的历史数据中,所有对冲基金都有着极佳的回报,这都是事后调整确认的

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I don't know how many kids, generation after generation, get in trouble because they do not remember the following fact.

我不知道有多少孩子,一代又一代,因为没有记住下面的内容而遇到困难

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We could choose any two quantities, and, in fact, it turns out that these are going to prove, after we have the second law, not to be the best choice.

我们可以任选两个物理量，其实，在学习了热力学第二定律之后，我们可以证明，这样的选择并不是最好的。

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And, in fact, you should stop noticing it after it's been in the environment for long enough.

事实上，如果它在环境中出现的时间足够长久的话,你就不该再去一直注意它了。

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It's not until Book Three, until after Milton presents his heroic portrait of Satan and his heroic portrait of the fallen angels when he establishes the fact of his blindness.

直到第三卷弥尔顿呈现,他对撒旦和降落的天使们的英勇形象后,他才证实自己失明的事实。

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From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.

虽然经过十万年,或一百万年后，生命会变得了无生趣，但那不能说明经过50，80，百年后,生命会变得无趣。

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So this is version two of the swap function and, in fact, it is almost identical, this is before, this is after, before, after and it looks like the solution to this problem that we've been revisiting a couple of times now is just to do what?

这个swap函数的第二个版本，实际上，这几乎是一样的，这是之前的，这个之后的，之前的，之后的，这看起来像是这个问题的解决方案,我们一直多次访问它,目的是什么呢？

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You can go buy a score of the Beatles, for example--although they didn't design this initially with music, but after the fact,people sort of listen to it and make written-- put in written form what had originally been just an aurally conceived artistic statement.

你完全可以去，比如说买一些披头士的乐谱，但是他们当初写歌的时候并没有想用乐谱的形式传播，事实是人们听了他们的歌，再把它们写下来-,人们只是把一项为听觉设计的艺术品用笔记录下来。

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It's simply a convention established after the fact that allows us to organize material in ways that we can grapple with it ways that we can understand it.

这仅仅是在事后建立的一种惯例,好让我们组织材料,用容易整理的方式,用容易理解的方式

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Years after the fact, I get e-mail from--e-mails from students.

这些年,我经常会收到来自学生的邮件

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Milton, in fact, soon goes on in Paradise Lost - right after this very passage that she cites, Milton the narrator berates Adam for his overvaluation of his wife through the character of the Archangel Raphael.

实际上，弥尔顿紧接着就在《失乐园》中,-紧接着恰德莱引用的这一段后面，米尔顿这个叙事者通过大天使拉斐尔这个角色,批评了亚当，批评他高估了他妻子的地位。

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What's obvious after the fact is not what's obvious before the fact.

显而易见的现存事物，在其诞生前,并不是那么显而易见的。

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