And then we calculate changes, the convention is understood with respect to what is the zero, right.

然后我们计算改变,这个约定就是用来规定零点的位置的。

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and he set aside a couple of, like, one and a half-hour long appointments.

我们约定了两三次见面的时间，每一次都有一个半小时长。

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Now then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples.

如今你们若忠诚于我们的约定，就在万民之中作属于我的子民。

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The absolute number that you assign to it is something that's arbitrary. You have to set what the zero is. And so there's a well-understood convention for what the zero is.

你指定给它的绝对值是有任意性的,你需要设定零点的位置,因此有一个经过充分研究的,关于设定零点的约定。

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They said, would you sign a contract that if you had this loss the contract would pay you a certain amount of money?

他们是这样说的，你会签署一个合约,上面约定了，当你发生损失,你会得到合约中约定的赔偿金？

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A contract is more then communication, a contract is communication with teeth. It actually changes the payoffs.

协议的效力大于口头约定,协议是有违约责任的,它影响收益

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He accepts entirely, or the laws force him to accept entirely, the covenant that every citizen has with the laws that binds them to absolute obedience.

他全盘接受，或说法律迫使他全盘接受，每位公民,与法律的约定,使他们束缚于绝对服从中。

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Just like one second is some convention we use and one meter is some convention we use.

就像一秒是我们预先约定的,一米也是我们预先约定的

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And even though the syntax, the characters you are about to see on the screen and in programs today onward is a little more arcane, it's a little uglier looking, you've got semicolons and parentheses and fairly arcane syntax, realize that at the end of the day these are just arbitrary human conventions, the ideas are identical to this thing here.

可能你在屏幕上，编程中见识到的,语法，字符看起来非常晦涩难懂,甚至可以说是丑陋，像什么分号啊,括号啊等等，还有一些难七八糟的语法，但是到了最后，你会发现,这些都不过是一些人为约定而已，而蕴含在里面的编程思想跟这个例子并无二致。

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Lastly, there will be very often a list of blessings for the party who obeys, and curses for the party that violates the pact.

最后，通常都是对遵守约定的一方，有什么样的奖励,而对违反的人会有什么样的诅咒。

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A forward contract is a contract made between two parties for execution in the future.

期货合约是指双方按约定,在未来某一日进行交割结算的合同

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It specifies what risks are covered, exclusions--some risks are not covered.

它必须约定被保险的风险有哪些,以及除外责任,即不被保险的风险有哪些

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In other words, we choose a convention for the zero of entropy, so that then we can write entropies of products and reactants always referring to the same standard state.

换句话说，我们选择了一个,焓零点的约定，这样我们,就可以总是相对于同样的标准,状态写出生成物和反应物的焓。

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You say void and that's the convention. Yeah.

你说的void，那是一个约定，请说。

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