The second part of the solar water heater holds the water for the system.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And that's also how people find ways to break the second law, because somehow they've messed up on what their system is.

这就说明了某些人是如何想到办法,“打破“第二定律的，因为他们以各种方式搞错了,他们的系统的定义。

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But occasionally there is this one little remnant of the old CGS system, centimeters-gram-second, and this is one.

但是也有些例外,在原来的厘米克秒制中，还有我们说的这个。

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The $150 million system is the second largest of its kind in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

And they've included too much or too little in the system, and it looks to them that the second law is broken and they've created more energy than is being brought in.

他们在系统中,包含了过多或过少的物质，从而在他们看来,第二定律貌似是被打破了,他们创造了比最初引入的更多的能量。

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In November,11,000 jobs were lost. Mr.Obama says his $787 billion stimulus plan prevented a possible collapse of the financial system or a potential second Great Depression.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Let's take a system. Under constant pressure T1 V1, going to a second -- this is the system, so let me write the system here.

我们建立一个系统1,在恒定的压强T1，V1，下，变成了另一个系统，-这个初始的系统让我把它写在这。

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