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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If you set up the atoms exactly the same way, they've always got to break down."

如果你精确地把原子以,同种方式设置,它们肯定会分裂

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And you know, you could have a reversible engine with lots and lots of steps, but you could always break them down into some sequence of adiabatic and isothermal steps.

你们知道，我们可以设计一个由，很多很多个,循环步骤的热机，但是总可以把它分割成,一系列的绝热,和等温过程。

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But you could imagine that communication could break down here.

不过也可能有沟通失败的情况

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You'll see other slides that break these down.

你们会在其他的幻灯片中看到这些分类

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Now, according to quantum mechanics under the standard interpretation, that's all there is to say about it. You have an atom like that, 80 percent chance in the next 24 hours it will break down.

按照量子力学的正统理论,也就是说,在未来二十四小时内,这个原子有百分之八十的概率会分裂

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