"One of the absolutely key, most important variables as to whether or not a forest survives and continues is whether local people monitor each other and its use.

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We're going to find other properties that do care about the history of the system like work, that you put in the system, or heat that you put in the system, or some other variables But you can't use those to define the equilibrium state.

我们还会发现其他一些,与系统的历史有关的性质,比如你对系统做的功，或者你向系统传递的热量，或其他的变量,但你不能用它们,来定义平衡态。

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There may be other variables at play but, all things being equal, similarity does not breed contempt.

可能有其他因素发挥作用,但是，如果所有因素都一样，如果两个人相似，就不会轻视对方。

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On the other hand, temperature, volume and pressure are variables that are much easier in the lab to keep constant.

另一方面，温度，体积和压强,在实验室中比较容易保持恒定。

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It turns out that slightly before the stack, slightly before this conceptual chunk of memory, there's other things called environment variables that we may see over time but elsewhere in memory are other things.

结果是稍微在堆之前，稍微在这个内存块概念之前，另外还一个东西叫做环境变量,我们之后可能看到，内存中的其他地方,是其他的东西。

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Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.

交通灯，三种灯，红黄绿，它们的颜色和彼此不能,我们有两种方式认识红灯的意思。

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