The equilibrium state is the one, and it's just one, in which there are no spontaneous changes that can take place to any other state.

平衡态是一个，而且仅仅是一个态，这个态不会发生自发变化,变成其他的态。

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where you can take one of them, put it back in a different place,

你可以从中租一辆用，然后把它放回到不同的位置，

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now let's go back to each of our individual steps and look, based on what we know about how to evaluate the thermodynamic changes that take place here, let's look at each one of the steps and see what happens.

让我们回到循环中的每一步,然后看看，基于我们已有的知识,来估计一下,发生的热力学变化，让我们看,循环中的每一步发生了什么。

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Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.

一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。

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And so do we want to say, do you want to argue that is just one instance of one of these bubbles, one of these manias take place even in free market.

那么您是否可以这么说,这只是众多泡沫，或者众多不规范行为中的一项,自由市场经济也不是万能的。

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You can take circles of different size and place them against your trajectory and see which one fits.

你可以做不同大小的圆周运动,然后把它们放到你的轨迹上,看哪一个匹配

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