"The most important motivating thing for us was to perpetuate the memory of these great men who are sadly dying away before our very eyes,"

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We solved that by focusing a great deal on motivating the students. Why?

我们通过激发学生,解决该问题，为什么呢？

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This goes beyond the simple goldsmith banker story that I was motivating initially.

我在前面讲了一个金匠银行家的故事,现在就没那么简单了

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So this is quite motivating and I'm glad to be at a place like Stanford where there is a lot of collaboration going on where we can really achieve this type of goal.

因此，这一点还是相当令人振奋的,我很高兴能在,斯坦福和大家并肩协作,真正实现自己的,这一目标。

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They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

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But thankfully I also found in my trolling around this morning,something that is perhaps technically motivating and at least remains for those of you which is many of you who actually use Gmail, you might have seen a little advert in the top right hand corner recently saying new beta version of a little something called Gmail Priority Inbox.

幸运的是我今天早上在网上闲逛的时候,发现了一些东西,一些对还在使用Gmail的人来说,可能在技术上有吸引力的东西，你可能已经看到,其右上方有个广告说的是,新版本Gmail优先收件箱发布了。

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