People are just material objects, the sorts of things biologists poke and prod and study.

人只是个物质实体,一个生物学可以钻研的东西

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It's the sort of thing that we can put on a scale and prod with a stick and the biologists can study, presumably made up of various kinds of molecules, atoms and so forth. So we've got the body.

这是一种我们可以称重,可被棍打,可被生物学家研究的东西,想必是由不计其数的分子,原子等构成,于是我们有了肉体

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Also, I ask the teaching assistants to give me little capsule descriptions of you so that if in ten years, or 20 years from now, I get a call from a reporter asking about this illustrious person who was once my student, I can have something to prod my memory.

我还要求助教做一个,你们每人的简要描述给我,这样的话,如果在10年20年后,有个记者打电话给我,向我询问一位曾经是我的学生,而现在已经声名显著的人时,也好有些资料帮我想起来

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