It means that the properties of the system, the properties that describe the system, don't change in time or in space.

它的意思是指，用以描述系统的性质，不随时间或空间改变。

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It's insulated. It's a closed system. In fact, it's an isolated system. There's no energy or matter that can go through that boundary.

系统指的，是盒子里的东西,它是封闭孤立的。

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And those words mean different things: immunogenic means that it stimulates your immune system for a response; pathogenic means that it causes a disease.

这两个词有不同的意义,免疫效应是指,刺激免疫系统产生免疫应答,致病性意指它能使你患病

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And that concept is really to either write information into the brain and the nerve system or read information out of the brain and the nerve system.

这一概念实际上是指,向大脑或者神经系统输入信息,或者读出大脑和神经系统以外的信息。

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By systemic effects, I mean something that affects the whole financial system.

通过这种系统性作用,我指的那种影响整个金融体系的作用

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You click there, and you have to pay attention to how many services you have of something, because if it says that a serving is three-quarters of a cup and you ate a cup and a half, then the program has to recognize that or it won't be able to make an adequate judgment of what you're eating.

点击那里,大家还要注意,每种食物摄入了多少份,如果一份指四分之三杯,而你吃了一杯半,那么系统应该判断出是两份,否则它无法对你所吃的东西做出充分判断

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Adiabatic means that there's no heat transferred between the system and the surrounding.

绝热是指没有热量,在系统和环境间传递。

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