But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

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and the important point is that when people anticipate loss, we didn't see the same scale of activation in this region.

重要的是，当人们预计会亏钱时，我们在这一区域并没有看到之前的那种活动。

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First of all, I want to point out that this is not to scale.

首先，我想指出来的是,这不是针对尺度而言。

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The lowest possible temperature in the Celsius scale is minus 273.15 degrees Celsius. So that begs the notion of re-referencing our reference point, of changing our reference points.

在摄氏温标中,绝对零度是-273。15摄氏度5,这样，我们需要重新定义参考点,将零度的参考点取在绝对零度处，而不是0摄氏度处。

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