They're not straight-laced old-fashioned; they're willing to take experiments.

他们不固守成规,他们注重实证研究

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being straight about it, not having to step on anybody to get to where I want. And...

直白点说，不用踩在别人头上达到目的。而且

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And many people would look back on Dell and say, "You just went straight up." Well, not exactly.

回头看戴尔的发展历程，很多人会说，你们的业绩直线上涨，其实并不尽然。

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So, when the voltage difference between the plates is zero, or when we just don't have the plates there at all, the cathode rays are not bent, they just go right in a straight line, and they can be detected on this screen.

拐弯来测试它们是否带电,当两板之间电压为零，或者根本就,没有这两个板时，阴极射线是一条直线,它可以在屏幕上。

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Now the problem with that is a problem I mentioned before, that most human genes are not just a straight sequence from beginning to end of the protein that you're interested in.

但现在的问题,是我之前提到过的,大多数人类基因不是一个连续的序列,从头到尾都对应你想要的蛋白质

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The force may taper off, the force may not be given by a straight line, but for modest deformations, every spring will have a linear regime in which the force is linearly proportional to the stretching.

它产生的力可能会渐渐消失,力的曲线可能不是一条直线,而有轻微的弯曲,每个弹簧都有一个线性区间,在这一区间内,力和伸长量是线性关系

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Chemistry and biology, physics has the advantage that the desktop experiments can do are relatively straight forward than not dangerous.

化学和生物的话，物理有一个好处就是,桌面实验能做到,直观却不危险,地反映结果。

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Now there many ways I can connect these two points together. The simplest way is to draw a straight line. It's called the linear interpolation. My line is not so straight, right here. You could do a different kind of line.

最简单的办法是,像这样画一条直线,这叫线性插值,不过我的这条线画得不太直，你也可以用别的办法,比如一条抛物线。

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