She measured the distance between the bones in the finger, because when we get older, the space becomes smaller-- they become tighter.

她测量指骨间的距离，人越老，骨骼间空隙变得越小-,指骨变得更紧。

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So what we do is we pick an origin, call it zero, we put some markers there to measure distance, and we say this guy is sitting at 1,2,3,4,5.

我们现在选择一个原点,称其为零点,我们做一些标记来测量距离,这个点在五个单位长度的地方

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Studies have been done in the city of New York where you can-- if you live in Manhattan you can actually get a very nice metric of how far apart people live from each other in city blocks. Right?

纽约市就做过这类实验,在纽约-,如果你生活在曼哈顿,你能准确地测量,生活不同街道的人相互距离多远？

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