The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

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And you know, that's tough for them but you know what, if you fall down,

对他们来说很难，但是如果你摔倒了，

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And I imagine the first person who articulated the question aloud probably met with the response saying, "What a stupid question. Of course things fall down."

我想象第一个人,大声提出这个问题,可能得到这样的回答，多么愚蠢的问题，物体当然下降“

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We don't have the time here to go case, by case, by case, and ask ourselves, "How does the evidence fall down one side versus the other?"

我们这里没有时间一个接一个地,看这些例子 然后问,这个证据是怎么让一方打倒另一方的

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Everybody's going to put the cup down and assumes it's going to stay there but not fall to the floor.

每个人放下杯子时,都会假设杯子会稳稳地搁在那里,而不是掉在地上。

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And if you go to the website and look down here, 02 Fall Term '02.

如果你上那个网站，看到下面这里，秋季学期。

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Well let's see. My fall back is, I could just do linear search, walk down the list one at a time, just comparing those things. OK. So that's sort of my base. But what if I wanted, you know, how do I want to get to that sorted list? All right?

我只能做线性搜索了,一次遍历一遍列表，一个一个比较，但如果我想要,那怎样得到有序的列表呢？,现在的一个问题是，我们排序之前？

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Well, yes, of course things fall down, but why?

对，物体当然下降，但为什么？

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And this is why the humor-- why the damage is often a certain sort of damage involving things like embarrassment, sex, scatology, a banana peel, pie in the face, your pants fall down or something, where there's no real harm.

这就是为什么幽默-,所涉及的伤害通常都是,涉及尴尬，性，不雅语言，香蕉皮，摔到脸上的派，掉裤子之类的，这些情况没有造成真正伤害。

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If you take enough alcohol, it then goes down to inhibit the excitatory parts of your brain and then you fall on the floor and pass out.

如果你摄入足够的酒精,就会抑制在你大脑中起兴奋作用的脑组织,之后你便醉倒了

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