He hated welding and shunned it. He felt bronze casts were too many steps removed from the real thing.

他厌恶焊接法并尽量避免使用，并认为铜铸法步骤太多抹杀了真实性。

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But one thing at a time. I wanted to point out to you that very often functions that you see in real life satisfy many nice relations between the partial derivatives.

但是有一件事情，我必须指出来，在现实中，很多函数的偏导数之间，存在着很好的关系。

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Shanzhai has undoubtedly broadened the availability of modern technology to many in Asia who previously might not have been able to afford "the real thing."

毫无置疑，山寨使得许多亚洲人民使用现代科技产品变得可能，他们是负担不起正版的产品的。

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