And that's also how people find ways to break the second law, because somehow they've messed up on what their system is.

这就说明了某些人是如何想到办法,“打破“第二定律的，因为他们以各种方式搞错了,他们的系统的定义。

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We can define it in a couple of different ways depending on whether we're talking about sample mean or population mean.

我们有几种不同的方式去定义这个概念,取决于我们指的是,样本均值还是总体均值

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Well, that may seem to be the most natural way to define death, but it's not an acceptable approach.

这似乎是定义死亡的最自然的方式，但并不是可以接受的方法。

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Is is essentially saying, given 2 things, do they point to exactly the same referent?

或者换种思考的方式，大家记得我说过当我们，调用类的定义声明的时候,它会创建一个实例？

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The citizen in an unqualified sense Aristotle writes is defined by no other thing so much as sharing in decision and office.

生活方式的人,亚里士多德写到公民的定义,从广义的观点看来不外乎就是分享决定和官职。

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Yeats once said that he wanted the natural words in the natural order, but he had a very highly cultured sense of what is natural, and his poetry is full of verbal archaism.

叶芝曾说他想让自然的话语,用自然的方式呈现，但对于,自然的定义他又将其高度文化化，他的诗歌有很多口语的古语表达。

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If we defined food differently: that it's something that nurtures the body, something found in nature, something that doesn't harm the environment-- there are a number of criteria one can apply to define a food-- then we might come up with a different definition than this, but this is the way the nutrition field generally looks at it.

如果我们给出不同的定义,滋养身体的物质,在自然界找到的物质,不会威胁到身体的物质,有很多标准可以拿出来定义食物,我们也许可以就此重新进行定义,但这就是营养学看待食物的方式

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Which are both defined to be, or I can define them in multiple ways, 0 and 1.

可以定义为，或者我可以用多种方式来定义它。

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A good, hygienic way of doing this is, not only do I not go in and change things except through a pre-defined method, I shouldn't read it other Cartesian than through a pre-defined method.

做这个的方式是，我不仅仅要通过提前定义好的方法,来改变数值,我还应该通过提前定义好的方法，来读这个值,我应该用。

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And that's a wonderful thing to have because it gives you that modularity, that encapsulation that basically says, when I create a point, the only way I can get at the values, is by using one of the defined methods, in this case it could be Cartesian, Cartesian and get all the pieces of that.

这是很棒的一件事情,因为它让你有了，模块性以及封装性，这基本上也就是说，当我创建了一个点，我能够得到它的值的唯一的方式，就是用一个定义好的方法，在这个例子中也就是。

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Once I've got that, you notice I can now define a polar point, same way. Notice I've now solved one of my problems, which is, in each one of these cases here, I'm creating both x y and radius angle values inside of there.

你们注意到我现在可以，定义一个极坐标点了，以同样的方式,请注意到现在，我已经解决了我的问题之一了，也就是，在这些例子中的每一个,我在里面都创建了x，y值。

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