As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

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And in principle, I could redo this calculation for every single possible probability you could think of.

并且理论上,对于每一个可能的概率对,我们都可以进行预期收益计算

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Logically speaking, you could believe some of these things and not all of them.

理论上来讲，你可以相信一部分而不是全部。

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What I was going to say is that you could, at least theoretically, strike with your spear in a overhand manner or you could strike with it in an underhand manner, the only thing is I don't know how you do that underhand when you're in the middle of a phalanx.

我要说的是,士兵们能够,至少从理论上来说,可以自上而下地刺矛,也可以这样自下而上地刺矛,我不太清楚在方阵中,士兵们怎么能够自下而上地刺矛

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In principle, we could play this with the whole class, but let's single out a particular row of the class so I'm going to come down here and I guess eventually, well I'll grab it in a minute.

理论上,我们可以全班一起做这个博弈,但我要选出特定的一行,我先走下来,我觉得,我很快就能挑到人

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