This is actually very representative of when you do research in the laboratory, you will find often things do not work quite exactly as they worked 20 minutes ago when you just checked it in your office, for example.

在实验室做研究时,这个实际上是非常具有代表性的，举个例子,当时只是在办公室核查它时,你经常会发现事物无法,像它们20分钟之前那样精确的工作。

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Let's say you are in an office, that's say, the doctor's office, and you're waiting a really long time.

假设你在一个医生的办公室等了很久。

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That is, if we meet on the street, you come talk to me during office hours, you ask some question; Shelly's the name that I respond to.

也就是说，如果我们在街上碰见了，或是你来办公室找我谈话，问我问题;,我会回应薛立这个名字。

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The reason they call them boiler rooms is, if you are selling stocks by telephone there's no reason to rent a nice office, so you get the cheapest -so you put a whole bank of telephones in the cheapest place.

它之所以被叫做锅炉房是因为,如果通过电话进行买卖交易,你没有必要去租一间漂亮的办公室,于是你租了最便宜的出租房,然后在那儿放满电话

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We have 266 ping-pong balls, and we need someone, hopefully you, to be some radioactive material that are going to be emitting these ping-pong balls. And when the time comes, in just a minute, I'll ask the TAs to come down and hand these out very quickly to you, so we can do this experiment.

你们有些人那天，看到我在办公室数乒乓球，我们需要几个人,希望是你,来作为放射材料，放射这些乒乓球,等会我会让助教,把这些球发给你们。

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Was your office right next to the Oval Office?

你的办公室就在他的隔壁吗？

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Perhaps somebody at the office has been hitting on you.

假设办公室里有人老是在挑逗你。

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but you prefer to stay in the office,

但你比较想待在办公室，

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