来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新生有机化学 第1集 第1集》

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  Yes, sure.
  知道 当然
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  Right? The Mathematical Principles of Science, of Natural Philosophy.
  是吗 <自然哲学的数学原理>
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  But there's an interesting thing on the title page.
  书的题名页上有个有趣的东西
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  Samuel Pepys is the one who gave permission to publish that book,
  塞缪尔·佩皮斯给了这本书的出版许可
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  because he was the president of The Royal Society.
  因为他是英国皇家学会主席
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  Now six years later Pepys encountered a problem with dice.
  六年后 佩皮斯遇到了骰子问题
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  The reason was he went to coffee shops every night for dinner
  原因是他每天晚上到咖啡馆吃晚餐
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  and they'd gamble,and people proposed various kinds of bets,
  人们会赌博 人们提出各种赌注
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  and he couldn't figure out this one,
  他搞不定这个问题
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  so he wrote Newton for help.
  所以写信向牛顿求助
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  So this was the problem that he wrote to Newton,
  这是他信上写给牛顿的问题
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  twenty-second of November.
  在十一月二十二日