In his opinion, writing helps affirm identities, which makes sites such as Facebook,Twitter and other blogging sites all the more important as Iran's youth tries to shape its own identity.

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John Milton will remain unique in English letters for the degree of thought that he gave to the shape of his literary career, or actually to the notion of a career at all.

约翰弥尔顿在英语文学方面的影响是十分独特的,因为他深刻的思想塑造了他的文学事业，或者说，塑造了他对事业的看法。

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You'll notice the shape is the same, all that's different is their orientation.

你们会注意到形状是一样的，它们的区别就在于方向。

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But it turns out that if you make the voters distributed more realistically, let's say like on a bell-curve shape, it makes actually no difference to the result at all.

但事实上,就算我们让选民分布更符合实际情况,比如说是按钟形分布的,但这实际上对结果没有什么影响

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This is incredibly important because if you picture having a double bond in a very large molecule, you could have all sorts of other atoms off this way and all sorts of other atoms off this way, and you can picture the shape would be very different if you have one confirmation versus another confirmation.

这是十分重要的,因为如果你想象在一个大分子里有一个双键，你可以在这里有各种各样的其它原子,在这里也有各种各样的其它原子，你可以想象一个构型,和另外一个构型之间的形状差别是非常大的。

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