"I don't expect people to take it literally," he said.

“我不期待人们原样的接受它，”他说。

youdao

You can't fight automaticity, and you wouldn't want to: "living more consciously" might be a new-age cliche, but take it literally and you'd soon seize up.

你不能和自动性斗争，你不能想“更加有意识地生活”只是又一种陈词滥调，只要逐步地做，你很快能掌控全局。

youdao

I felt awkward asking patients to literally take a placebo. But to my surprise, it seemed to work for many of them.

对我来说，叫病人服用所谓的安慰剂简直不可思议，不过令人惊讶的是，这似乎对很多人都管用。

youdao

So things break if you try-- if the computer tries to take you too literally so it would not be correct generally to do something like that.

如果你把它分开-,那么电脑会逐字逐句地解析,你拆开写的代码,由此得到的结果一般都是错误的。

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But we also saw it's a dangerous idea to take too literally: that sometimes this can get you to over think the problem and actually, as in that numbers game last time, the best choice, the winning choice, might not involve so many rounds.

同时我们也发现过度照本宣科也不好,有时他会导致你,对于问题的过度探究,正如我们上次玩的数字游戏,最优选择,最后获胜的答案,有时不会绕那么多弯子

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