We have a table of the elements with properties varying periodically with atomic mass, so we compress all of that information and refer to it as the Periodic Table.

我们有一个元素表，其中的元素的特性,随着原子质量的改变而引起周期性的变化，所以我们将所有的信息精简,将它变成一个周期表。

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Now so-- just in that little quiz you can see that you guys have varying levels of knowledge about nutrition.

根据刚才的测试可以发现,对于营养学,你们的知识量各有不同

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So that we can talk about things being beautiful to varying degrees, but we never come across beauty itself in the actual empirical world.

我们可以探讨,事物的不同程度的美丽,但是我们从不在现实世界中,直接碰到"美丽"这个东西

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