And that's because it's easier to test small things than big things. And it's easier to debug small things than big things.

这是因为对小一点的对象,进行测试比对大一点的对象进行测,试要简单多了，调试也是如此。

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Sometimes the flood seems to be the result of very heavy rain, but in other descriptions it seems to be a real cosmic upheaval.

有人说，大洪水是大雨导致的，还有人说，是因为宇宙变动引起的。

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Higher entropy basically because you're forming molecules of gas where there weren't any before, and there's more disorder in the gas phase than in the liquid. That is, the gas phase molecules have more freedom to roam.

高的熵是因为,我们产生了以前不存在的气体分子,气体的无序程度比液体大，换句话说,气相的分子，有更多的到处游荡的自由度。

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I know table salt is white, but that is because you have power and you have multiple surfaces scattering, but a large crystal of sodium chloride is clear and colorless.

我知道食用盐是白色的，但这是因为你让它成了粉末,因为有了多个散射面，但是一个大的氯化钠晶体,是无色透明的。

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In the case of the ambulance and police car, it's more a question of brightness.

警车和救护车上之所以用红灯，大多是因为红灯亮度大。

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The challenge is greater because in 2001 we had a fairly easy victory over the Taliban.

说挑战大,那是因为2001年在与塔利班的较量中，我们轻松地获胜。

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This is because even though z, the atomic number is still increasing, we are also getting further away from the nucleus.

从有效核电量方面来想一想为什么，这是因为，尽管，Z，原子序数依然在变大，但我们同时也在离原子核越来越远。

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He's an older fellow. He's sort of my age and the reason I mention Chuck Mangione is that years ago I went to school with him.

他稍年长些,差不多和我一样大,我之所以拿查克·曼卓林来举例,是因为很多年前我和他一起上过学

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Well, it changes the food in ways that are commercially appealing for the industry.

这是因为它能使食品业获得更大利润

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The most common one and the one we're going to use, is what's often called big Oh notation.

也就是我们即将用的方法,就是通常被叫做大O的方法，它叫大O并不是因为。

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And they had this feeling because there had just been this huge boon of discovery, of scientific advances that included Newtonian mechanics, it included Dalton's atomic theory of matter, also thermodynamics and classical electromagnetism.

他们会有这样的感觉,是因为他们刚，经历科学上的,大繁荣期，包括牛顿力学,道尔顿物质原子理论，热力学和电磁学,都取得了巨大进展。

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Another side effect if you take too much lithium is death, so that's no good to have in sodas either, and it might not have been as big a deal back in the 1920's, but you can imagine with supersizing today, this might be a bigger problem.

另一个副作用是因为摄入锂过量而死，这更说明在汽水里放这种东西是不好的，这在二十世纪二十年代可能没什么大问题，但你可以想象在如今这个什么都超标的时代，这也许会出更大的问题。

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