for instance, for the thermos with the coffee in if you place the boundary in the inside wall of the glass or the outside wall of the glass and the inside of the thermos, that makes a difference; different heat capacity, etcetera.

比如说，对于装咖啡的热水瓶来说,你把边界设置在瓶胆的内壁上,或者设置在瓶胆外壁上,或设在热水瓶里面，情况都是不一样的;,有不同的热容等等。

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The child starts off grasping the world only in a physical way, in a sensorimotor way, but when he gets to the preoperational period, the capacity to represent the world, to have the world inside your head, comes into being.

开始的时候,儿童只能通过生理的方式,通过感知运动的方式,来认识世界,但是当儿童进入了前运算阶段,他们便逐渐拥有了表征事物,在头脑中构建世界的能力

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