So thermodynamics, based on these four laws now, requires an edifice, and it's a very mature science, and it requires that we define things carefully.
热力学是一座,建立在这四条定律上的大厦,它是一门非常成熟的科学,也要求我们在定义东西时非常小心。
Like, because I mean... Like this semester, I was hoping to take 3 sciences with an American Cultures class,
例如,像这学期,我想选三门科学课,外加一门美国文化课,
But whatever your reason for being here this is in fact our introduction to Computer Science; and contrary to what you might have heard or seen or perceived in high school, odds are computer science is not quite what you imagined it to be.
但是不管你们来这儿的原因是什么,这门课介绍的都是计算机科学,可能与你们平时听到的看到的,或者在高中时所想象的恰好相反,计算机技术的优势完全不是你想象的那样。
When you came into this class in the beginning of the semester you may have thought you were just signing up for a class in political science.
当你们在学期一开始时,选修了这门课,可能会以为,这只是另一门政治科学课程,你可能未了解到。
Following a transformation the study of which is not the concern of the social sciences but rather of biology and psychology, a crossing over came about from a stage where nothing had a meaning to another where everything possessed it.
这门学科并不属社会科学的范畴,而是属于生物学,心理学,此种转变是一种跨越,从一个什么都没有意义的时代到,一个每样东西都能表达的时代的。
and added a structure of math upon it, to build this edifice, which is a very solid edifice of thermodynamics as a science of equilibrium systems.
了这座热力学的坚固大厦,这是一门,平衡态系统,的科学。
And so we'll talk about technologies like this, where they're at, what the scientific basis of it is, and how they might be useful.
我们将讨论这门技术会应用于哪些领域,它的科学原理是什么以及,如何使他们发挥作用
Even those of you who've taken AP computer science or something similar perhaps recall that even just getting a piece of input from the user is ridiculously not obvious.
你们中上了AP计算机科学这门课,或者类似的课程的人可能还记得,即使只是从用户那里得到一个输入,也相当麻烦。
Every other book in this political science that has since been written, beginning with Aristotle's Politics and moving on to the present day is, in one way or another, an answer, a response to Plato's Republic.
这门政治科学,所用的其它现存读物,从亚里士多德的《政治学》,一直到今日的其它著作,多少都只是,对柏拉图的《理想国》回答或响应。
Now there are other kinds of processing that can happen to RNA as well, and again, I said this is really still an emerging science, but this is one that's well known, and you could imagine that it's important.
如今人们也发现了,其他的RNA加工机制,我再一次强调,这真的是一门新兴科学,这是一种目前我们已经熟悉的机制,而你可以想象这是多么重要
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