Unfortunately, we now have lived with it forever, so don't think of it as actually being anything dynamic particularly. It's just a name.

不幸的是，我们现在得一直沿用这个名字了,所以别认为它指的是什么动态的东西,这只是个名字。

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To figure out even what this thing is, let alone how to use it properly. So, you know, I'm sympathetic.

就连认出这是什么东西（都很困难），更别说正确应用它了，所以我很同情这点。

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Maybe you don't even know what this-- do you all know what carbon paper-- I guess you do know what this is, right?

或许你们甚至都不知道这是什么东西-,你们都知道复写纸吗-,我猜你们都知道这是什么，对吧？

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I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

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Because once you actually push people,to pin them down, what do you mean by it,you end up with something that's either just not true, or not interesting,or not necessary, or not particularly unique to death.

因为你一旦逼问他们这到底是什么含义，得到的东西既不会是真实的，也不会是必要和有趣的，也不会是对于死亡来说独特的。

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If you wanted something, and this is still true in France today, it doesn't do any good to go to the local notable, like you did in the eighteenth century and say, "hey,monsieur,the little guy, it would be great if we had a school."

如果你想要什么东西,这在今天的法国仍然是事实,去当地的贵族那里绝无收获,就像是你在十八世纪的时候说,"嘿,小子,如果我有一所学校就再好不过了"

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And also, as I'll discuss in a minute, a lot of people don't recognize what a portion is, and because the food industry has been very successful at recalibrating us to think about what's acceptable to eat in one sitting at one time, and because of that our notions of portions have been thrown way off.

同时,马上我要讲到,很多人不知道摄入量是什么,因为食品业,成功的重塑了我们,就坐用餐时关于什么东西是可食用的看法,而这使我们对摄入量这个概念,有了不同看法

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Now, you think you can make a mistake on your exam, take a look at this up here at tell me what that all is. I have no idea.

你觉得你可以在考试的时候犯错误，看一看这之前写的东西,能告诉我这些是什么，我也不知道。

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We're just going to listen and see if anything strikes you as interesting.

听这一片段的任务是看看你能不能发现什么有趣的东西。

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This is what I've done, if you hear about anything, I'm looking for a job..."

这是我做的东西，如果你听说了什么，那就是，我正在找工作……”

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