A figure stood in the doorway, silhouetted against the light.

门口站着一个人，屋里的亮光映衬出他的轮廓。

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Against the light. Never just past, not the future.

逆着光旳从来只是过去，而不是未来。

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Your whole shape shows when you stand against the light.

你站在光前就显露出整个身影来。

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Max Arthur Cohn's painting "Coal Tower" shows the dark form of a coal tower against a light sky.

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But when you look at it in a comparative light in its legal context, we see that it's a polemic against the class distinctions that were being drawn in antecedent and contemporary legal systems, such as the Code of Hammurabi.

但当你在法律背景下以一种比较的观点看待它时，会发现它驳倒了存在于先前的和同时代的,法律体系中的阶级差异,例如，汉穆拉比法典。

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So, one thing they did, because it was so easy to measure kinetic energy of electrons, is plot the frequency of the light against the kinetic energy of the electron that's coming off here. And in your notes and on these slides here, just for your reference, I'm just pointing out what's going to be predicted from classical physics.

他们做的其中一件事,因为测量电子动能是很容易的，就是画出光的频率,和出射电子动能之间的关系,在讲义的这里，仅仅是,为了做个比较，我要指出，经典物理所给出的预测,这个不作为对你们的要求。

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The door opened a crack and Toby stood silhouetted against the light of the outer room.

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The door opened and I had to raise my arms against the light.

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She points to what looks like an empty space on the left side and then holds it up against the light and suddenly a picture of Mahatma Gandhi appears with the number 500 written on it.

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