These are the planks of his model, that matter is composed of atoms that are indivisible and indestructible.

这些是，他的模型的一些内容，物质是有原子组成的,不可分割且不可毁灭的。

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Nature supplies the standards, the materials, the models, for all the later arts, the city being by nature, man by nature, nature provides the standard.

自然提供了标准，物质，模型，为后来产生的艺术，为城市，为人类的存在，是自然提供了一切标准。

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But because in many cases we can reasonably either model or measure equations of state, collect data for a material for its temperature, pressure, volume relations, then in fact if we can relate all these quantities to those then in fact we really can calculate essentially all of the thermodynamics. For the material.

但是因为在很多情况下,我们能够合理的给出状态方程的模型,或者通过收集一个物质的，温度，压强和体积之间的关系,来测量其状态方程，所以实际上我们可以给出压强等物理量,和热力学势之间的关系,并计算出所有的热力学势，对于给定的物质。

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