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decode
Mind over Machine
Carl Zimmer
他将解译它，然后把它发过去。
he had to do was decode it and pass it over.
decoded the enemy's telegram.
我们破译了敌人的电报密码。
☺example:
[diː'kəʊd]
vt. [计][通信] 译码，解码
vi. 从事破译工作
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hubris
Mind over Machine
Carl Zimmer
傲慢在这里也有很大的影响。
1. Hubris has a big impact here too.
2.“Hubris” is too much self-confidence or ego.
“狂妄自大”就是过于自信或过于自负。
☺example:
['hjuːbrɪs]
n. 傲慢，狂妄自大
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eavesdrop
Mind over Machine
Carl Zimmer
ensconced himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.
他藏在壁橱里，以便偷听。
☺example:
['iːvzdrɒp]
vi. 偷听，窃听
n. 屋檐上流下来的水
2In the past, if spies wanted to eavesdrop,
they planted a bug.
在以前，如果间碟想要窃听他人，需要安插一个***。
间谍
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[8] The notion of decoding the brain’s commands can seem, on the face of it, to be pure hubris . How could any computer eavesdrop on all the goings-on that take place in there every moment of ordinary life?
解码大脑指令的想法乍看起来可能像是十足的狂妄自大。计算机怎么能窃听日常生活每时每刻发生在大脑里的全部活动呢?
Mind over Machine
Carl Zimmer
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Mind over Machine
Carl Zimer
[9] Yet after a century of neurological breakthroughs, scientists aren’t so intimidated by the brain; they treat it as just another information processor, albeit the most complex one in the world. “We don’t see the brain as being a mysterious organ,” says Graig Henriquez, Nicolelis’s fellow co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering神经工程学. “We
see 1s and 0s popping out of the brain, and we’re decoding it.”
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neurological
Mind over Machine
Carl Zimmer
这个医院专门研究神经病学的康复。
hospital specializes in neurological rehabilitation.
's a very different technique than the neurological manipulations we explored a few years back.
这是与我们以前报道过的神经学上的处理完全不同的一种技术。
☺example：
[,njʊərə'lɒdʒɪkl]
adj. 神经病学的，神经学上的
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Mind over Machine
Carl Zimmer
albeit
☺example:
clear albeit cold weather 寒冷但却晴朗的天气
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