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"It's an astonishing feat to get six predictions in a row. I am told people are walking into our shops and saying 'I will have what the Octopus predicted.'" But before taking Paul's word for this World Cup, it might be worth checking out the competition, because Paul isn't the only animal making predictions on this World Cup.
VOA: standard.2010.07.09
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The ordered swirl of houses and streets from this high angle sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.
从这个高的视角，看到的像漩涡一般,排列有序的房屋和街道，就像当初的印刷电路一样，以未曾预料的，令人惊讶的清晰感。
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Ivan Ilyich The astonishing thing is that Ivan Ilyich is shocked to discover that he's mortal.
令人惊讶的是,发现自己会死时非常受震撼。
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It is--could legitimately be seen as one of the most astonishing things that people do.
这可以被合理地看做,是人类所做出的最惊人的事情
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It was absolutely astonishing.
这绝对令人吃惊。
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And, in particular, I want to lead off the class with an idea that the Nobel Prize winning biologist, Francis Crick, described as "The Astonishing Hypothesis."
我想先提到一种观点,这种观点的提出者是位诺贝尔奖得主,生物学家,弗兰西斯·克里克,他将这种观点称为"惊人的假说"
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And The Astonishing Hypothesis is summarized like this.
这一惊人的假说大致观点如下
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It is fair to describe this as astonishing.
用"惊人"来形容这个观点是贴切的
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It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.
某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。
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As he writes, The Astonishing Hypothesis is that: You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
正如他在其著作《惊人的假说》中写到,你,你的喜悦,悲伤,回忆,抱负,你对人格同一性的感知,你的自由意志,事实上,这一切都不过,是大量神经细胞集,与其缔合分子的生理反应而已
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