And I think that's very important especially with electromagnetism, which is so numb toward if, so abstract and so much math flowing around.

我觉得这是非常重要的,尤其是对于电磁学来说，它是一门很难懂的，很抽象的学科,包含很多数学在里面。

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So today, I want to be a little bit less abstract, if you like, and I want to look at an application.

今天的课程会不那么抽象,如果你们愿意的话,我想在这里列举一个应用案例

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OK. So to do this, we need a little more abstract way of talking about efficiency, and so, the question is, how do we think about efficiency? Typically there's two things we want to measure.

好，为了达到这个目的,我们需要用一种有点，抽象的方式去讨论效率，这衍生出来,一个问题，我们该怎么去认识效率？,主要来说我们有两个要量化的东西。

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So the number two, the numbers, three, whatever it is, whatever they are, are these Platonic abstract entities that don't exist in space and time.

因而,数字2,数字3,不管它们是什么,至少它们都是不存在于时空中的,柏拉图式的抽象实体

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So literary can sometimes be very abstract like mathematics, and therefore, if someone says make me a movie, showing me what the square of minus two means that is going to be a challenge.

文学有时候也可以很抽象,像数学，因此如果有人说,给我做一部电影吧,给我展示一下负二的平方,那将是一个挑战。

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Now, a lot of today is going to be fairly abstract, so I just want to remind you that Game Theory has some real world relevance.

今天所讲的很多内容会很抽象,但我想要提醒大家,博弈论与现实世界是紧密联系的

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