In other words, we cannot talk about individual particles.

换句话说，我们不能只研究单独的粒子。

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Again, if you just thought about life as a ruler, well pretty good thinking about it in isolation.

再一次，如果你只考虑了统治者的生活，非常好地单独考虑。

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What it means is I don't want to take unique time that we could be discussing other things in class by covering things that you could have read already.

这只说明我不想在课上单独花时间,来讲你们可能已经看过的东西,这个时间可以用来讨论其他内容

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Because sometimes the value of a combination is different then the value you would get by just thinking about each one of the parts in isolation and then adding them up.

因为有时一个组合的价值会不同,那么你得到的价值是只单独考虑每一部分,然后把它们相加所得。

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