the total amount of the work that we can get out is just given by the area inside this curve.

能够输出的功就是,我们可以得出来,曲线所包围的面积。

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It's because over the last two years since I last taught it, I've done a lot work in the area of silence.

因为上次课程结束后到现在的两年，我做了大量关于安静的研究。

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W2 So in this case, it's the amount of work is the area under that curve. And in this case here, the amount of work is bigger, w2 is bigger and it's the area under this curve.

这是路径2做的功,比W1要大，现在假设,我把这两条路径结合起来。

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So we had students do research, quantitative research or qualitative research; we had students do literature reviews in a particular area of interest; work proposals for book they want to write; or workshop proposals and those kinds of things.

我们让学生进行研究，量化研究和质化研究;,我们让学生,就感兴趣的领域写文献观后感;,他们计划写的书的进展计划;,或实验计划等等。

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