We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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And these are words that are very meaningful when you read the text of a problem or of a process Any questions before we got to the zeroth law?

这些词汇会非常有意义,在我们进入第零定律前,有没有什么问题,我们差不多已经，讲完了？

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