So a woman is sent to Enkidu and her job is to provide the sexual initiation that will tame and civilize Enkidu.

所以一个女人被送到Enkidu面前,用性让他变得驯服，更加文明。

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If somebody goes through a terrible initiation to get into a club, they'll like the club more.

如果人们需要经历一些低劣的入会仪式,才能够进入某个社团的话，那他们会更喜欢这个社团。

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At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

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And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

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b times. So I've got to go 3 b steps. All right I've got to go through the loop b times I've got three steps each time, and then when I pop out of the loop, I've got two more steps. All right I've got the initiation of answer and the return of it.

好，我一共执行了b次循环,每次循环内部进行了三次基本操作,当跳出循环后还有两个基本操作，因此这个初始的答案就是,2+3b次基本操作,来完成这个循环。

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