The operating system still finds it but this process of getting some of your files bits from here, some from here, some from here, induces a potential slow down.

操作系统根据文件块的地址,仍旧能够找到这一整个文件，这也导致了潜在速度变慢。

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The energy expanded by the system is smaller for the irreversible process.

它做的,功要小些。

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It's the way, for example, that foreign molecules or antigens get presented to cells of your immune system in order to start the process of making an immune response, so sometimes a cell/cell interaction.

通过这种方式,外源分子,或者说抗原,进入到免疫系统的细胞中后,就会开启免疫反应过程,有时候就是细胞之间的相互作用

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