There's a phone in Buddy and Seymour's old room that is a private internal line, and it just goes from one room to another in the apartment; it's not an outside phone line.

在巴蒂和西莫的就房间里，有一台电话,有一个私人的内部线路，在公寓里的房间联通,不与外界相连。

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That is, if you plot the relationships between people We can take each person in this room, find everybody you know and who knows you and draw a line, but if we were to do this you wouldn't find an even mesh of wires.

也就是说如果要划出人们之间的关系,例如这个教室里的人，把互相认识的人用线划出来，如果我们这样做,得到的结果不是一个分布均匀的网状图。

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