Thermodynamics is asking you, what work does this thing do on the surroundings or the surroundings do on the system?

热力学在问你们，到底是系统对环境做功,还是环境对系统做功？

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I think that many years ago, in the early 90s or 80s, or the 70s even, it was a very dangerous city.

我想很多年以前的八九十年代或者甚至七十年代，它是一个非常危险的城市。

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I'm now exploring the question of whether or not stock prices are indeed memoryless, or the stock changes.

我现在要探索一个问题那就是股价,是否真的是无记忆的，或者说股票的变化是否是无记忆性的。

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For instance, the pressure and the temperature, or the volume and the pressure.

比如压强和温度，或体积和压强。

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It's a soul. It's the house of, or the seat of, or the basis of, consciousness and thinking, perhaps personality.

它是灵魂,它是意识,思想,也许是人格的,归属,所在地或者说是基础

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So 1.1 times 10 to the -31 meters is not, in fact, a significant number when we're comparing it, for example, to the length of a ball, or the size of the baseball field.

所以1，1乘以10的负31次方米，事实上并不是一个很重要的数字，举例来说，当它与一个球的长度，或者一块棒球场地对比时。

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Maybe it could refer to either the poet or the sun throughout the entire line, if you think of the mantle blue as being the actual sky that the sun is able to twitch over his shoulder.

或者两者皆可,从整句的行文看来，如果你们把蓝色的丝巾看作是真实的天空的话,那么太阳的确是能够在他的肩上轻轻颤动。

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If you've ever been using some program, you did something completely innocuous, pull something down from a menu, click a button, you didn't do anything wrong and yet all of a sudden the thing just starts hanging there or you get a little spinning beach ball or the hour glass or whatever it is.

如果你之前在用一些程序，做一些无伤大雅的事情，拉下一个菜单，点击一个按钮，你没有做任何错误的事情,突然间有东西开始一直运行,或者一个沙滩上的小球旋转,或滴漏或是别的什么。

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You wonder why would it be that the whole western half of the U.S. gets only or the western third of the U.S.

你也许会质疑，为什么,美国整个的西部一半只有一个,或者说美国西部的三分之一。

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On the inside are the rungs or the struts that hold the ladder together.

梯子内侧是梯阶,也可以说是梯阶把梯子连接在一起

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The pace or the speed of the piece?

一段乐曲的行进的步调或速度

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In many ways you can look at most of our experiences, psychological effective experiences on a continuum, where some of them fall below the zero, the negative experiences or the painful experiences and the positive or the pleasurable experiences between the zero and the positive.

可以从多方面来看我们的经验，在心理连续谱上看有效心理经验，有时候会跌倒0以下，不愉快或痛苦的经历,积极或愉快的经历,分别在0与正值之间。

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This in some ways might seem a case of putting the cart before the horse or the cart before the course maybe because how can you say how can we say ? what political philosophy is in advance of doing it?

这好像有点,本末倒置,或说未卜先知,因为你们怎能谈，我们怎能,先谈政治哲学，之后再来实作呢？

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They want to know where it comes from, who grew it in some cases, how many miles it got transported, what was put on the food as it was being produced, what was given to the animals or injected into them as the beef was coming out, or the pork, or the chicken and these will be very interesting topics to discuss.

人们希望知道食物从何而来,由谁种植的,从多远的地方运过来,在加工过程中,在食物中添加了什么,人们看到牛肉,猪肉或鸡肉时,会想知道这些动物,都被注射了什么,这些话题讨论起来都会很有意思

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This is generally the general introduction of the brain that I wanted to provide, giving the framework for what I'll be talking about later on throughout the course so that I might later on make reference to neurons or neurotransmitters or the cortex or the left hemisphere and you'll sort of have the background to understand what I'm talking about.

以上这些就是我所要讲的,关于大脑的综述,为我以后要讲的课程,建立起框架,往后我可能会提到神经元,神经递质,大脑皮层,或是大脑左半球,而拥有了背景知识的你们,便能够理解我在讲些什么

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and the landlord or the person who owns the house or apartment wants to kick them out.

房东或者房子的主人就想赶他们出去。

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