So I think we're overcomplicating things a little bit.

所以我认为我们把事情弄得有点复杂了。

If you try to make them complex, the chances are you may make more mistakes and you'll have pressed a sauce on your shirt.

如果你试图把它们弄得更复杂，你可能会犯更多的错误，你会把酱汁压在你的衫上。

Well, how about we start a little smaller?

呃，不如先别弄得那么复杂?

I just don't want to confuse things, Ciara.

席亚拉 我不想把事情弄得复杂。

Being stupid can also lead to us making overly complicated ideas and situations simple. Often, we make things way more complex than they have to be.

愚蠢也会导致我们把过于复杂的想法和情况简单化。我们经常把事情弄得复杂得多。

Let her go and I'll release Tyler. It doesn't have to get any messier than it already has. I'm not your enemy, Jules.

放她走，我就放了泰勒。没必要把事情弄得这么复杂。我不是你的敌人，朱尔斯。

Now, also that's okay, but the problem as well is that a lot of students then try to make it more complicated and they start crafting and creating a better answer.

这也没关系，但问题是很多学生都想把它弄得更复杂，他们开始构思和创造更好的答案。

Remember, people have to absorb information very quickly while they're listening, don't make it too complicated.

记住，人们在听的时候必须快速吸收信息，不要把它弄得太复杂。

The rules are simple, don't make it complicated.

规则很简单，不要把它弄复杂。

And then you make it endlessly complicated and none of it's right.

然后你把它弄得无穷复杂，可没有一样是对的。

OK, you don't have to make it too complicated.

好的，你不必把它弄得太复杂。

And we maybe have made it too difficult.

而且我们可能把它弄得太过复杂了。

Let me complicate things a little bit.

让我把事情弄得复杂一点。

And they tried to make it too complicated.

他们把它弄得太复杂了。

He took out his black pipe and was going to fill it with negro-head, when, looking at the tangle of tobacco in his hand, he seemed to think it might perplex the thread of his narrative.

他拿出他的黑烟斗，正要往里填黑人头烟叶时，瞥了一眼手中的烟叶，似乎觉得这烟叶可能会把他的叙述弄得复杂难懂。

So let's make it a bit more complicated this time, so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

这次让我们把它弄得更复杂一些，一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十、十一、十二、十三和一、二、三、四、五、六、七。

You can't overcomplicate it or you're going to do a bunch of half right, half wrong things and then not really know where your progress or your deficits are necessarily at.

你不能把它弄得太复杂，否则你会做一堆半对半错的事情，然后并不真正知道你的进展或不足究竟在哪里。

Now, as I describe all this, I realized that I might be taking what a few minutes ago, was fairly simple in design and making it more complex.

现在，当我描述这一切时，我意识到我可能把刚才还比较简单的设计弄复杂了。

Like, there's a realistic chance the VergeCast audience is like, I should make this equation more complicated, like in your day to day lives.

比如，VergeCast的听众很可能会有这样的想法：我应该把这个方程弄得更复杂些，就像你们日常生活中的那样。

I don't let them touch the numbers, but I do let them know this is how confusing the government makes it just to exist.

我不会让他们接触这些数字，但我确实会告诉他们，政府为了让我们生存下去，把事情弄得多么复杂。