So what they do is, they're describing how these thermodynamic properties change, in terms of only state functions and state variables.

他们的作用是描述,随着状态函数和状态变量的变化，系统的热力性质如何变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I think it may be just the function of the way those agencies are run.

可能是这些公司运营方式的作用。

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In 1896, Charles Pickering from Harvard found a series of lines in starlight which he attributed to hydrogen, even though they did not fit Balmer.

在1896年，来自哈佛的查尔斯皮克林发现,一系列的星光,他认为那是氢的作用，虽然它们与巴尔末理论不符。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And one bit of evidence that these genes are implicated is that some unfortunate people have point mutations in these genes.

证明这些基因起作用的一些证据,是这些基因会在某些不幸的人身上,发生点突变

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Because I think that's actually the most satisfying life for us to live, personally, to feel that we are really making a difference somehow and we are not living just for ourselves.

我个人认为,最完满的生活，是那种，你能够感受到真正发挥了作用的生活,而不是完全地为自己而活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In any case, the tension between denotation and connotation is part of the way in which irony works.

在任何情况下，讽刺的作用,都是表达了符号和涵义之间的张力。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gravity is one force that acts on a body without the source of the force actually touching it.

引力是一种受力物体收到了力的作用,但却没有接触施力物体的力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Because I was taught good style, I'm giving that variable a name that conjures up the idea of its role, which is thankful or not.

因为我们学习了好的格式风格，我将给那个变量起一个,能使我们联想到它的角色作用，它是满意的或不满意的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So the consent, here, we're coming back to our question, what is the work of consent?

再回到关于同意的问题，同意的作用是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And what they do is they regulate the influx of ions across that cell.

它们的作用,是调节离子流入细胞的流量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So we can have an example, let's look at it.

而键是起到一个索引的作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Sickle cell anemia is a disease that affects a subset of the population.

镰状红细胞贫血症,是一种作用于特定人群的疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's actually having the effect of not letting the markets clear.

它实际的作用是,阻止市场出清。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's the harmonic series that's on that, and what the valves do is they shorten and lengthen that vibrating column of air very much like the cello string on the fingerboard.

这就是圆号上的泛音列,活瓣的作用是增长或减短,空气柱的高度,很像大提琴指板上的弦

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well it matters. It's measurable.

它确实会起作用，它是可以测量的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I mean, you know the wings go, and the air runs, and then the motor on the engine and it's a miracle how it gets up there and that is the way I used to explain the Greeks, because I had no better idea.

我的意思是,你知道机翼的作用,空气的流动,还有引擎上的发动机,飞机能飞起来,是个奇迹,我就是用这种方式来解释希腊历史的,因为我也没有更好的方法了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When the charge is applied, if the upper plate is negative, we would expect that the negative droplet would be repelled at a rate exceeding the gravitational fall.

当电荷起作用时，如果上边的板子是负电的，我们可以期待负电的液滴会,超过重力下降速度的速度被排斥。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And how does modern chemistry work?

现在化学是如何起作用的？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So when you operate on the wave function, what you end up with is getting the binding energy of the electron, and the wave function back out.

所以当你将它作用于波函数时，你得到的是电子的结合能,和后面的波函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I didn't even need to know that heat capacity of the product, right. Because it's effect the thermal mass of the product is negligible compared to the thermal mass of the calorimeter.

我甚至不需要知道生成物的,热容是多少，因为生成物的,热质量的作用相比于,量热计的热质量是可以忽略的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

There's a whole class of antagonistic drugs that have been designed to influence your cardiovascular system.

现有一大类的拮抗剂类药物,全部是设计作用于心血管系统的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I want to try to understand in that lecture-- help us to understand how this works and how we're getting solutions--possible solutions to these problems.

在那节课我会,帮助大家了解这是如何发挥作用的,以及我们是如何找到,可行性方案来解决目前的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He just said whenever there's an acceleration, it's going to be due to some forces and it's your job to find what the forces are.

他只说过只要有加速度,就说明有力的作用,你们的任务是要找出这些力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Again, what's the utility of the Born-Haber Cycle?

波恩哈伯循环的作用是什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So a behaviorist story about fetishes, for instance, is it's straightforward classical conditioning.

比如行为主义者对恋物癖的一种解释就是，恋物癖是简单的经典条件作用的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So it does seem to be working; right?

它貌似是起作用的，对不？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And what it does is pull into the tonic.

它的作用是引出主音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选