It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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So it's going to keep in mind the limitations, so let's start off with talking about ionization energy.

那么让我们将这些局限性记在心里，继续来讨论一下电离能。

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Can't my mind take off from there and push straight ahead to the idea of the perfectly straight, even if I never have encountered it before?

即使我之前没有直接碰到过,难道我的心灵不能借此来推断出,完美的直线是什么样子的吗

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