But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

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Sometimes you can mess with the computer, for better or for worse.

其实你也可以恶搞一下电脑，好也罢坏也罢，都行。

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But listen to them and work with them to develop common policies that will get us out of this mess.

只要听取他们的意见，与他们合作,制定共同的政策,这样做能帮我们摆脱困境。

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But along with this conceptual framework, provided by none other than Thomas Hobbs in England, who had lived through the English Civil War and thought that you shouldn't mess around with this rights business, you need some sort of big powerful monarch there-- but there was a sense inherent in all of this.

但与之同存的另一种观点,是英国最具代表性的托马斯·霍布斯提出的,他经历过英国内战,且认为君主不该滥用手中权力,你需要的是一个有权利的君主,但这其中有一些内在的概念

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And we'll see if you try to mess with our functions by providing a string when we want an int, or providing an int when we want a string, you may very well get yelled at and the user will have to retry.

我们可以看到，如果你尝试打乱我们的函数,当想要一个int数时我们提供sting型，或者,当想要一个sting数时我们提供int型，你可能会被吼叫,然后用户不得不重新尝试。

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