He understood the interaction of particles of matter, and that's important to set the stage for the Rutherford experiment in Manchester about 10 years later.

他理解物质粒子之间的相互作用，这点很重要,对于10年后他在曼彻斯特搭设,用于卢瑟福实验的平台来说。

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Well the cauliflower has some nutrients that are important, but the Haagen-Dazs has immediate value because of the energy it gives you.

菜花里面含有一些重要的营养物质,但哈根达斯的价值则更直接,它可以马上为你提供能量

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The only thing that matters is the salvation of the incorporeal, the bodiless soul, but Milton is so unorthodox, or at least heterodox, in his insistence on the importance of the body in this poem.

基督教强调只有非物质的非肉体的心灵的救赎，才是重要的，但弥尔顿是如此异端，至少不正统，在诗中一直强调肉体的重要性。

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We have waves of mater. That is important.

有物质波，这很重要。

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These are going to be fairly common-sense definitions, but they're important, and when you get to a problem set, really nailing down what the system is, not more, nor less, in terms of the amount of stuff, that's part of the system, it's going to be often very crucial.

这些是,很常识性的定义，但是很重要，当你要解决问题时，务必要搞清楚系统是什么，它包含多少物质，不能多也不能少，这往往,是非常重要的。

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But there's a part of us, perhaps the essential part of us, that is something more than the physical, the spiritual, immaterial part of us, which as I say in this class we'll call a soul.

我们身体中有一部分，可能是重要的，比身体重要的，精神上的，非物质的部分，就像我在这里说的灵魂。

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