In high school I was a math whiz, and so I spent my first year of college at M. I. T., learning that I did not have the burning desire to be an engineer.

在高中的时候，我是一名数学天才，所以我大学的第一年是在麻省理工大学度过的，在哪里学期期间，并没有燃烧起我做工程师的愿望。

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All right, so I'm burning some energy, I'm burning some fuel to do this somehow, to get that work to happen.

而这个路径需要先加热再冷却，这样，我需要能量来源，比如燃料，来完成做功。

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"Motive is always the burning question, and I'm not sure we'll ever really know what was going through his mind, " Pickering said.

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