A resolution is a promise to change or do something different in the coming year.

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Now to make that happen, it's not adiabatic, right. If I wanted to do that, I'd need a heating element or something to cool, so I could make that temperature change happen, right.

要实现这点，它就不会是绝热的，对吧，如果我想做到这点,我需要一个加热元件或什么制冷的东西,这样我才能让温度变化。

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They were pretty slow off the mark to do something about this, and it was after lawsuits were filed that they actually made the change.

他们先慢腾腾的应付着,直到诉讼结束时才真正做出改变

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