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And just for contrast, we can do this with any word. 相对，你也可以为其他词汇勾勒词景 We can take the word bye as in good bye. 比如goog bye(再见)里的bye字 And we're now zoomed in over the entrance to the house. 我们放大到房

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And we see these amazing structures -- these little knots of two colors of thread we call social hot spots. 我们看见令人惊讶的结构，这是两种颜色的小结点，我们把它称为社交热点 The spiral thread we call a solo hot spot.

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Okay, what were the telltale signs? Well first we heard what's known as a non-contracted denial. 好，破绽是哪些呢？首先，我们听到一个正式的否定形式。 Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resor

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You're telling a friend an amazing story, and you just get to the best part when suddenly he interrupts, 你正给朋友讲一个精彩的故事，刚讲到最精彩的部分时，他突然打断了你说： The alien and I, not Me and the alien. 应该

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A hypnotic state of cognitive dissonance in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception 它是一种催眠状态下的认知失调，在此状态下，人们被强迫放弃自己的认知， in place of the officially dictated version of

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We always hear that texting is a scourge. 人们总说短信的出现是一种灾难。 The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, 这么说的原因是短信降低了人们的读写

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If somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, 如果一个1973年的人看着1993年一个学生宿舍信息栏， the slang would have changed a little bit since the era of Love Story, 俚语等习惯用语会跟爱情

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Now this brings us to our next pattern, which is body language. 这引出了下一个模式，那就是肢体语言。 With body language, here's what you've got to do. You've really got to just throw your assumptions out the door. 讲到肢体语言，

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Second insight. So far, until that point I had been mostly involved or used the language of design for promotional purposes, which was fine with me. 第二种体会：在那次长假之前，多数时候，我都使用设计语言帮助促销，那并没

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Julia: Arent you nervous about your surgery next week? Hugh: No, its a routine procedure. I dont even need to be admitted overnight. Julia: But arent you going under general anesthesia? Its not the same as local anesthesia, you know. Hugh: Yes, I kno

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As you can see, the device enters the body through the natural channels. 我们可以看到，这种器材无需大型切口就可以进入人体。 Doctors have only to close the catheter through the hole. 医生只需要在穿过心脏缺损的部分

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So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks. 所以一个握手，或不握手，我们都可以聊上好几个礼拜。 Even the BBC and The New York Times. 即使BBC和纽约时报也不例外。 So

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Today you can lay down -- lie on your living room floor, sipping bourbon, 如今你可以躺着，躺在卧室地板上，喝点小酒， and teach yourself any language that you want to with wonderful sets such as Rosetta Stone. 用丰富的学习材料

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Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, 第二个原因：有研究指出，同时讲两种语言的人更不容易痴呆， and that you are probably a better multitasker. 而且你可能更加