In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.

例如，在美索不达米亚的故事中，神肆意妄为，凭着一时的念头做事。

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as we can think about something and then we can act on it.

与我们所做之间的联系。

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The physicist has to constantly find out what forces act on bodies.

物理学家必须,不断地寻找都有哪些力作用在物体上

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I bring a million preconceptions to bear on what I take to be a simple act of looking.

在我做看这个简单的动作时,我已经有了百万个先入之见。

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Whereas pushing the fat man over is an actual act of murder on your part.

而反之，把胖子推下去则是你自己的直接谋杀行为。

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It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

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That's Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act; what that did was, it eliminated ceilings on interest rates --on deposits, it allowed banks to pay high interest rates.

存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,所做的就是,取消了存款利率的上限,准许银行支付高额利率

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I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.

我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。

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The cells that take an electrical signal, which is coming down your nerve and convert it into a muscle contraction work this way, so 'neuro' nerve, muscle junctions act based on ligand-gated ion channels.

依靠相同的工作原理,细胞将来自于神经的,电信号传递到细胞收缩肌中,所以神经和肌肉关节运动,都基于配体门控离子通道

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