I don't want to have to deal with heat escaping to the outside environment in a way that might be difficult or complicated to measure or calculate.

我可不想处理跑到,环境中去的热量，那测量或,计算起来会非常麻烦和复杂。

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Joule actually did this experiment, and he observed that for the gas expansions that he could do, that the temperature did not increase measurably.

事实上焦耳的确做了这个实验，他做到了,他能达到的最好实验要求，发现在可测量范围内没有观察到温度上升。

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Then also a problem is you can't weigh things when you're eating out, so even if you were being incredibly precise about stuff at home and you were actually weighing things, you couldn't do that very well when you're eating out.

问题是,当你在外吃饭时无法称量食物,所以即使你在家中非常精确地测量食物,并且实际测量了每样物品,但在外吃饭时你可没法这样干

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He didn't want to use negative numbers To measure temperature in Denmark outside.

他可不想用负数,来测量丹麦室外的温度。

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