So how did you settle disputes when they fight and disagree, say, Executive Secretary Rumesfeld, who is a fellow Princetonian both went to Princeton, but he wouldn't be the easiest person to deal with.

在他们争论和出现分歧的时候,你是怎么解决的呢，比如说行政秘书拉姆斯菲尔德长吧,你们俩是普林斯顿的校友,但是他在工作中并非很好对付的人。

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That is, if you plot the relationships between people We can take each person in this room, find everybody you know and who knows you and draw a line, but if we were to do this you wouldn't find an even mesh of wires.

也就是说如果要划出人们之间的关系,例如这个教室里的人，把互相认识的人用线划出来，如果我们这样做,得到的结果不是一个分布均匀的网状图。

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And again, we could spend a lot of class time saying, well riboflavin does this for the body and that for the body, but my guess is most of you wouldn't find that so interesting and for those of you who would, the information on it is available elsewhere as I said.

我们可以花很多课堂时间来说,核黄素对机体有这样那样的功用,不过我猜你会感到很无趣的,而对此感兴趣的同学,我说过你也可以从其他途径获得这些信息

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