And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

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But if we could statistically control for every other variable, all I'd need to do is measure the distance from your door to everybody else's door on campus and I could chart out who's going to fall in love with whom on the Yale campus.

如果我们能精确地控制其他可变因素，那么只需要测测距离,你宿舍门到其他宿舍门的距离,我就能够计算出,校园里谁爱上了谁。

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A to B is one distance, which is a large one, and B to C is only half that distance, and that's because of the way the Greeks laid this thing out with their two to one ratios, three to two ratios and so on.

到B是一个距离,比较大,而B到C只有半个距离,因为希腊人,用诸如二比一,三比二,之类的频率比来安排音阶

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