It is to connect people, to bring people together, people from all around the world and to enjoy this game.

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Now, I wanted to go to through this just to go through one cycle quickly because we're going to be doing these all the time, and the importance of the fact that the path doesn't matter, and you can always connect things together in a way, whatever you want.

我使用这种,利用热力学循环的推导方法的原因在于,今后我们，将经常使用类似的方法,大家要记住路径是无关紧要的，可以随意选取一条路径,来连接两个态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That's a choice, and that choice turns out to be very interesting and really important, because if you connect these two points together, you get a straight line that has to intercept the x-axis at some point.

在这一选择下,我们会发现一件非常有趣，而且极其重要的事,当你把这两点用直线连接起来，你会发现这条直线,将与x轴在某点相交。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选