We talked about the inevitability of death; we talked about the variability, that people have different lengths of time before they die.

我们讨论过了死亡的不可避免性;,我们讨论过了其可变性，不同的人在他们死之前有所的时间长度不同。

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You adjust the lengths and when it balances, you can sort of tell what this mass is, right?

调整它与支点的距离,然后当它平衡时,你就能得到质量是多少,对吧

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So these distances are the lengths of these line segments.

这些线段的长度就是距离

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And the answer has to do with ratios and string sizes and lengths of pipe and things like that, but generally speaking, pitches that are right next to each other--very close to each other--are dissonant.

答案和比率以及弦乐器的尺寸和管乐器的长度等有关，但是总的说来，音调是相关联的，非常近。

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Now, of course, we've got to have units and the units for lengths are going to be meters.

当然,这里还得有单位,长度的单位是"米"

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I have to be really careful when I said, "Add the lengths."

当我说"模长相加"的时候需要非常小心

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That's clear. If I add them, I'll get a vector parallel to i with lengths Ax + Bx.

这很明显 如果把他们加起来,就得到一个平行于 i,模长为 Ax + Bx 的矢量

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