As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

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The word "carbohydrate," as you might imagine, if you ever thought to break it down means the combination of carbon and water.

碳水化合物这个词,如你所想,如果你把它进行拆分的话,就是碳和水的结合物

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