And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

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There was the delight I caught in seeing long straight rows of red and green vegetables stretching away in the sun to the bright horizon.

当我看到一排排红的绿的蔬菜,在阳光下延伸得又直又长,直到闪耀的地平线上。

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And you don't get a complete straight line but you get an interesting function that suggest that there's a relationship.

你不会得到一条完整的直线,但会得到一个有趣的函数,表明他们之间的某种关系

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So, when the voltage difference between the plates is zero, or when we just don't have the plates there at all, the cathode rays are not bent, they just go right in a straight line, and they can be detected on this screen.

拐弯来测试它们是否带电,当两板之间电压为零，或者根本就,没有这两个板时，阴极射线是一条直线,它可以在屏幕上。

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Well, we've got a skippy Beethoven music but here with Tchaikovsky he's coming down, just straight down, down consecutive intervals there for the most part.

我们听过贝多芬的曲子,非常跳跃,但在柴可夫斯基的乐曲里,音高急转直下,动机部分连续出现音程下降

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Can't my mind take off from there and push straight ahead to the idea of the perfectly straight, even if I never have encountered it before?

即使我之前没有直接碰到过,难道我的心灵不能借此来推断出,完美的直线是什么样子的吗

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Now there many ways I can connect these two points together. The simplest way is to draw a straight line. It's called the linear interpolation. My line is not so straight, right here. You could do a different kind of line.

最简单的办法是,像这样画一条直线,这叫线性插值,不过我的这条线画得不太直，你也可以用别的办法,比如一条抛物线。

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