The absolute number that you assign to it is something that's arbitrary. You have to set what the zero is. And so there's a well-understood convention for what the zero is.

你指定给它的绝对值是有任意性的,你需要设定零点的位置,因此有一个经过充分研究的,关于设定零点的约定。

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They said, would you sign a contract that if you had this loss the contract would pay you a certain amount of money?

他们是这样说的，你会签署一个合约,上面约定了，当你发生损失,你会得到合约中约定的赔偿金？

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In other words, we choose a convention for the zero of entropy, so that then we can write entropies of products and reactants always referring to the same standard state.

换句话说，我们选择了一个,焓零点的约定，这样我们,就可以总是相对于同样的标准,状态写出生成物和反应物的焓。

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I print F, I backslash N, just to pretty up the screen, ArgC I then iterate from, I equal zero up to Arg C; so Arg C is the convention.

我键入printf，反斜杠n，来使屏幕变得美观点，然后i开始迭代，从i等于0增加到;,所以ArgC是一个约定。

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You say void and that's the convention. Yeah.

你说的void，那是一个约定，请说。

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