Huge rounded and box-like buildings have windows in the shape of circles and triangles.

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If you made it in a cup and you tried to pour it out it would still have the shape of the cup when it came out.

如果你在杯子里做果冻,并试着倒出来,当它出来的时候,还会是杯子的形状

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The interesting question from the standpoint of economic theory is, why did it have that funny shape?

从经济学理论的角度来看,期限结构的走势为什么会这样呢

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All we have to figure out is how many nodes we're dealing with and then we can get the general shape of the graph here.

我们要知道的就是有多少个节点,然后我们就能得到图的大致形状了。

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And insofar as we care about the overall shape of our lives, we might worry about wanting it to have the right shape overall.

既然我们在乎生命曲线的整体形状，我们可能会想得到正确的整体形状。

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For thinkers like Tocqueville for example regimes are embedded in the deep structures of human history that have determined over long centuries the shape of our political institutions and the way we think about them.

举例来说，对于像托克维尔之类的思想家而言,政体内嵌于人类历史的结构深处,许多世纪以来决定了,我们政治机构的形态,及我们对它们的看法。

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Scratch The syntax actually looks reminiscent to Scratch, where you have a puzzle piece reminiscent of this shape, but you have to say "if" followed by a space, followed by in parenthesis, the Boolean expression that you want to check -- more on those in a moment.

这个语法看起来使人想起，那里有一个这种形状的程序块，但是你必须说明“if“后面跟着一个空格，跟着一个括号，一个你需要核对的布尔表达式,-还有更多的。

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Now, that being the case, we have to worry then that because of the unpredictability of death that our lives may not have the ideal shape.

既然是这样，那么我们会变得担心起来,由于存在死亡的不可预见性,我们的生命线可能不会是理想的形状。

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