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基本面
Fundamentals
When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
当你看运动员的时候,他们有基本原则。
But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
但是,如果没有基本的音乐基础,你就无法在音乐上扩展或超越任何一点。
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
从某种程度上说,整个公共关系灾难的有趣之处在于,网络的基础非常好。
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
这意味着量子力学中存在根本的不确定性,但除此之外,还有其他有效不确定性的来源。
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
我可能有根本的反社会倾向。我从来没有参加过任何课外活动。我只是在那个水平上彻底失败了。我内心的一部分仍在反抗。
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
如果我们不能开始就基本问题达成一致,比如消除最具虐待性的童工形式,那么我们真的还没有准备好走向未来。
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
所有的妥协都是建立在互谅互让的基础上的,但根本不可能有互谅互让。任何基于基本原则的妥协都是投降。因为这一切都是给予而不是索取。
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
如果我们观察宇宙的行为方式,量子力学给了我们基本的,不可避免的不确定性,因此宇宙的其他历史可以被赋予概率。
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
看看增长,看看人们花在网络上的时间,看看他们正在做的各种各样的事情。这一切都非常好,所以我实际上受到了互联网使用量增长的基本原理的鼓舞。
I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.
我建议从小学到大学的所有层次的科学入门课程都要彻底修改。暂时把基础知识,也就是所谓的基础知识放在一边,把所有学生的注意力集中在不知道的事情上。
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
人类真正的道德考验,其根本考验(深藏在视线之外),在于它对那些受其摆布的人——动物——的态度。在这方面,人类遭受了一场根本的灾难,一场如此根本的灾难,以至于所有其他国家都起源于这场灾难。