They're trying to lay out an argument which is consistent and continuous and keep surprise to a minimum.

他们试图自然地建立起一个论点,使之一致，使我们的诧异最小化。

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So, we just have to keep improving our regulation and trying to make a deal with all of the problems as they come up.

因此,我们更该完善监管,我们应该想个应对问题的万全之策

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Now you keep on trying and because the reinforcement is intermittent you don't expect it as much and so your behavior will persist across often a huge amount of time.

你会不停的尝试,因为此时的强化是间隔强化,你并不会抱有很高的期望,因此，你的行为,通常会持续相当长的一段时间。

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That is a Greek idea of hell, where you got to keep trying and you always lose. So, that's the picture and you have to realize that death is a bad thing.

这就是希腊式的地狱,你不断尝试,却终究会失败,就是这样的场景,你必须得认识到死亡是不好的

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I mean we haven't, we don't really have a second version which is constantly... So I guess for most of last school year I just worked on scaling and kind of trying to make it keep up with the increasing load and trying to make it so that we can expand more, adding more schools.

说实话，我们从来没有,第二个版本。,我记得，在上一学年大部分时间里,我都在致力于扩大网站规模,这样是为了应对,不断增长的访问量,我试着完成目标，这样就能吸引更多学校。

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