"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

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It's biological engines, right. Things that either produce or consume biological fuel to do different sorts of processes. Also, of course of key importance to understand what the, in that case, biological thermodynamics are.

但不只是我们制造的引擎,生物引擎也是如此,它们产生或消费生物燃料,来完成不同的过程，当然，这也是理解生物热力学的关键所在。

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So you're going to figure out what happens in this story very generally, well not very generally, but in the particular case actually on the homework assignment, but I want you to understand that there's this much more general story underlying this, and this is a pretty good model of a lot of markets.

所以你们将找出,这样的例子里通常会发生了什么,也说不上太通常,只是在特定情况下,这个家庭作业中,但我想让你们明白,在这例子具有普遍性,且这对很多市场来说都是很好的模型

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