I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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Alternatively,it might have been that Righty woke up, but Lefty doesn't wake up,doesn't survive the operation.

或者是，醒来的是小右，而小左没能熬过手术，再也没醒来。

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We have to make sure that, in fact, that operation is not linear.

事实上，操作不是线性的，那让我来解释下这一点吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We'll talk about how your normal valves function inside your heart and how your heart couldn't work in the way that it did if it didn't have valves that were doing a very complex operation many many times a day.

我们会讨论,正常的瓣膜在心脏中如何工作,以及没有这个,每天不停完成很多复杂任务的心脏瓣膜,心脏为什么,就不能正常工作了

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It is going on for many years actually from the time of operation providr comfort with which I was involved in Northern Iraq when we realised that we would have civilian problems we need to develope civilian capacity to deal with these things.

这种状况已经持续了很多年了,从一开始在阿富汗北部,我参与的提供安慰行动,那时候我们就意识到我们缺少平民,我们需要更多的平民来解决这些问题。

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Because of course,if I haven't had it no wonder I don't remember it but if I have had it,I would have been given that temporary sort of localized amnesia So of course I wouldn't know whether or not I've had it So you ask the nurse ?" "Have I had the operation yet or not?"

因为如果没有手术,难怪我不记得了,但如果手术了，我会被给予那种,短时间的局部失忆药物,所以当然我不知道有没有做了,你就问护士,“我做手术了吗“

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