The sort of thing that perhaps we might call or think of as abstract objects or abstract properties.

这类事物,我们可能需要称作或认为是抽象的现实,或抽象的性质

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You might have brought in investments or something by borrowing money, so the investment--the combined investment and liability could be very volatile.

你可能通过贷款,进行投资或运行某种项目,因而投资...这种兼有投资,和负债性质的项目,风险极高

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We're going to find other properties that do care about the history of the system like work, that you put in the system, or heat that you put in the system, or some other variables But you can't use those to define the equilibrium state.

我们还会发现其他一些,与系统的历史有关的性质,比如你对系统做的功，或者你向系统传递的热量，或其他的变量,但你不能用它们,来定义平衡态。

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They are speaking the language of some kind of religious or quasi-religious desecration.

他们将事态讲成类似宗教,或半宗教性质的亵渎神圣。

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Another is how much it's processed and how if you take things that started out as food like wheat or corn, and then they're processed many different ways, and things are added to them or done to them that change their chemical properties, does that affect whether we would consider them food?

另一个是它们被加工过程和程度,比如对于用来食用的麦子和玉米,有很多种加工方式,可以向它们添加一些东西,或进行一些加工去改变它们的化学性质,这会影响我们去判断它们是否为食品吗

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