So it applies to macroscopic systems that are in equilibrium, and how to go from one equilibrium state to another equilibrium state, and it's entirely empirical in its foundation.

因此，热力学研究的是平衡态的宏观系统,以及如何从,一个平衡态过渡到另一个平衡态，它完全是建立在经验的基础上的。

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People in the state of nature may have regular and continual contact with one another.

在自然状态中的人们可能互相,有定期并持续的联系。

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Of course there are lots of states that would have maybe local pockets of one substance in excess and another substance in excess somewhere else In other words, there would be lots of states nearby to the equilibrium state.

当然，我们有很多的态,这些态中，某些位置被一种气体完全占据,另外一些位置被另一种气体完全占据,换句话说,在平衡态附近有很多的态。

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So another way to say that is, in a sense, if we're thinking about the excited state of a hydrogen atom, the first excited state, or the n equals 2 state, what we're saying is that it's actually bigger than the ground state, or the 1 s state of a hydrogen atom.

换句话说，如果我们激发一个氢原子，第一激发态或者说ｎ等于２的态，我们说它比氢原子基态,或者说１ｓ态要大。

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What extracellular matrix you have in any particular tissue is there because there's a balance between it being produced by one kind of cell and digested by another, and you're in this sort of state of dynamic equilibrium.

特定组织中,细胞外基质的多少,取决于一个,分泌与降解的平衡,这是一种动态的平衡关系

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Why should citizens of one state, namely one's own have any moral priority over the citizens of another state when, again, we don't know them and we may well be mistaken in our assumption ? that they are enemies or friends?

为何一国的公民，即为何某人能拥有,凌驾其它城邦公民的道德优势,尤其是我们根本不了解他们,我们可能误将他们,错认为是敌人或朋友？

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