So with apologies for being a bit more boring for twenty minutes, let's do something we'll call formal stuff.

抱歉接下来的二十多钟分可能有点枯燥,我们来做点正经事

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Because, uh, it's one thing to study something in a cold, academic way,

干巴巴的、枯燥的纯理论式学习是一种学习方法，

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So this is the same definition we saw last time, just being a little bit more nerdy and putting in some notation.

这个定义和我们上次讲的是一致的,只不过使用了些符号使它变得有点枯燥

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So it's kind of tedious, but it's important to see that it works.

所以这个过程可能有些枯燥，但是明白它的工作原理,是很重要的。

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Milton corrects -- it's as if he's correcting the sense of monotony with which he had begun the poem, and he corrects that sense of monotony by rewriting that initial phrase.

弥尔顿纠正道-正如他纠正那种单调的枯燥感,他用诗歌的开头句进行了纠正，他还通过重写开头句来纠正那种枯燥感。

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Chemistry isn't a litany of facts.

并不是仅仅枯燥的事实的罗列。

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Now, since we're being nerdy in this class, despite our attempts to go dating, we're being nerdy, let's actually be a little bit careful.

现在的内容的确有点枯燥,尽管我们有对约会的美好追求,但我们还是严谨一点好啊

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It'll allow us to use our notation and just be a little bit more nerdy.

我们接下来要用枯燥的符号表示了

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