Thermodynamics is asking you, what work does this thing do on the surroundings or the surroundings do on the system?

热力学在问你们，到底是系统对环境做功,还是环境对系统做功？

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So we have to assume that the occasion for this poem is some kind of question posed by John Milton, Sr., a question like, "To what end am I supporting you, Son?

我们可以假定这个诗的起因是,老约翰弥尔顿问小弥尔顿，“我到底为什么要资助你，儿子？“

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Then you might ask, why in the world do companies issue stock dividends anyway, what's the point?

你可能要问,那公司发放股票股利到底是为了什么呢,意义何在

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So he asks who God is, God says, "I am who am I am" or "I will cause to be what I will cause to be."

他问上帝到底是谁，上帝回答“我是自有永有的“,或者“我将会是我本该是的模样“

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They do a contest--those of you who like to enter contests--saying, "how can we break out of this awful mess, oh, whatever can we do?"

曾有一个比赛,问参赛者们,"我们该如何化解当前窘境,我们到底该怎么办"

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Well, we ask ourselves then, well, what's missing?

那么我们必须得问，到底缺失了什么？

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What, after all, is a community?" Bentham asks.

边沁问，到底什么是共同体。

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When you ask for the investment rate, you want to know the truth-- how much am I really getting so they don't monkey around here.

当你问投资收益率时,你要知道,我到底能赚多少,所以他们不再偷懒

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There you are at the pearly gates and you look back on your life and you could, in principle, add up all the pleasures, add up all the pains, subtract the pains from the pleasures and ask yourself, "How good a life did I have?

当你站在天堂门口回顾一生时,你可以，在原则上，累加所有快乐，累加所有痛苦，从快乐中减去痛苦然后问自己，“我的一生到底有多好？

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