It sounds pretty silly, but it's really important because it allows you to define a thermometer and temperature.

这听起来相当白痴，但是它确实很重要,因为它让你可以定义,温度计和温度。

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Some people like to use shallow and deep, object and value, but they're talking about the same thing, which is it the same object or is it the same, in this case, set of values, depending on what you want to define as you use it.

有些人喜欢用对象相等值相等,但是它们是同一件东西，也就是是不是同一个对象，或者是不是同样的，在这个例子中，是同样的值集合，这取决于当你使用它的时候,想要怎么来定义它。

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It depends on what you define, exactly what you define in your system.

它取决于你的定义，尤其是在你系统中的定义。

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It used to be that there was zero inflation if you define it with respect to gold and they were really true to that zero inflation in terms of gold.

如果你用金子来定义它,那从来没有过通货膨胀,这是事实,就金子而言没有过通货膨胀。

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All right, so I want to have some way of gluing those things together.

好你知道一个点的定义是什么,它有个x坐标有个y坐标。

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