There appears to be an element of truth in his story.

他的说法似乎有点道理。

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Work should be an element of your life.

工作应当是你生活的一种元素。

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Work should be an element of your life. It shouldn't be your life. It shouldn't delay your life.

工作应该只是我们生活的一个元素，而不是整个人生。

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You can also assign to a list, or to an element of a list. So ivy sub 1, f -15 or example, could be assigned minus 15, and that will actually mutate the list.

此外你还可以给一个数组，或者数组内部的元素赋值,比如ivy。sub，可以被赋值为，这确实改变了数组。

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