"I think the tragedy is he had to compromise upon the attempts to clear his name in order to smooth the path home to Libya,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

You could take a continuous path, where you have an infinite equilibrium points in between the two, a smooth path, whereyoudrop pressureand temperature simultaneosly in little increments.

你可以选择光滑的连续路径，在初末态间有,无数个平衡态的点，压强和温度同时一点,一点地下降。

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Versus the car in 1990 new and shiny and smooth.

相比1990年的很新很光滑。

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During that time, while on tour in Europe and Southeast Asia, he decided to stray from his usual regimen of smooth jazz and focus on the jazz classics he heard growing up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

So if there's any systematic bias going on in the way these things get graded it'll smooth itself out across the teaching fellows, so we'll have a fair grading system and things.

所以,如果在评分过程中,有任何系统性误差,都会由助教们尽量纠正过来,这样就有了公平的评分系统

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