来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第1集 第1集》

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  It's exercising a set of muscles
  写哲学论文是需要一些实力的
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  that a lot of you have not spent a lot of time exercising.
  你们很多人平时并没有练习写过
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  Now it's not as though you haven't spent any time doing it.
  并不是说你们从来没有花时间做过
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  You've had bull sessions, right,
  你们和高中朋友们
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  with your high school friends or in your college dorm or what have you.
  大学舍友等等有过闲聊
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  But you haven't done it with the kind of discipline
  但你们从未按照我们
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  and rigor that we're looking for here.
  标准严密的要求写过
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  So, like anything else,
  所以正如其他事一样
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  it's a skill that gets better with practice.
  这个技巧在练习中会进步
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  And what that means, of course,
  当然这也就是说
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  is you won't do as well at the beginning
  你们刚开始时做的不会太好
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  as you're likely to be doing toward the end.
  我们期望你们在最后会更好一些