The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.

这个比喻并不是在提醒我们撒旦的长矛像棍子一样小,因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。

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Well, let's start by-- Plato starts by telling us, reminding us of what it is to remember something.

让我们从这里开始,柏拉图首先告诉我们,提醒我们什么是记起一件事情

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They're going to meet in there in the back row probably but they're not telling us which movie.

他们约好在影院最后一排见面,但是忘了告诉对方看哪部电影了

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So the Hund's Rule is telling us to put the two electrons in separate orbitals unpaired as opposed to we should not put them in like this, like some librarian might want to fill nicely from left to right, up and down.

所以洪特定律告诉我们,要把这两个电子放在独立的轨道中,而不是像我们常做的那样，像一些图书管理员想要,把书从左到右，从上到下放得很好。

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So this should immediately look like a problem because we know, in fact, that methane is tetravalent, and this is telling us it's only divalent.

显然这看起来是一个问题,因为我们知道实际上，甲烷是四价的，而这告诉我们它仅仅是二价的。

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Milton is telling us that he is himself in the process, still in the process, of maturing.

弥尔顿是告诉我们他自己也还正在，渐渐成熟的过程中。

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So these are symbols telling us how long a particular frequency is to endure.

因此,这些符号是告诉我们,某个特定的声音频率要持续多长时间

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And even six-month-olds are sensitive to these rudimentary facts of arithmetic, telling us something about their mathematical knowledge, but also telling us something about that they expect things to remain when they're out of sight.

即便六个月大的婴儿,对算术的基础知识已经相当敏感,向我们展示了婴儿所具有的数学知识,但也同时告诉了我们,婴儿在看不到物体时,仍然会认为物体依然存在

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Because the self-help movement in many ways is about telling us how it's all about the power of the mind, talk about "Think and grow rich", the book; we'll talk about the secrets which is about creating our reality through our thoughts.

因为自助运动在很多方面,是在告诉我们信念力量是怎么回事，提到《思考致富》那本书;,我们会讨论各种秘密,它们如何通过思想创造现实。

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So str is basically telling us how we want to have it printed out.

因此str基本上也就告诉我们,怎么来显示对象了。

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Last time we reach the third law which is telling us that we can't quite get to zero degrees Kelvin .but that as the temperature approaches zero degrees Kelvin, the absolute entropy of a pure substance in perfect crystalline form is zero.

上次课我们得到了热力学第三定律,这个定律告诉我们我们无法,达到0K的温度,但是在我们接近绝对零度的过程中，以完美晶体形式存在的纯物质的绝对熵,也趋向于零。

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Lithium has three electrons. If it loses two one remains. What is this formula telling us?

锂原子有三个电子，如果它失去两个,剩下一个，那么这个式子告诉了我们什么？

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Whenever Johnson is being arrogant and mean about Paradise Lost, invariably he's on to something, and here he's telling us that Milton's gone too far. He's taken his allegory too far.

约翰逊任何时候都对《失乐园》报以傲慢且刻薄的态度，不可避免地，他是想表达着什么，在这里他想告诉我们,弥尔顿做得太过了，他在寓言上走得过远。

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This is telling us something deep and important and interesting about the nature of death.

这是在告诉我们很有深度，很重要,同时也很有趣的关于死亡本质的事。

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Infinity is the force when we're thinking about it and our brains, negative infinity is when we actually plug it into the equation here, and the reason is the convention that the negative sign is just telling us the direction that the force is coming together instead of pushing apart.

说力有多大时，我们想到的,是无穷大，而方程解出来的,是负无穷，这是因为习惯上,我们用负号表示力的方向,是相互吸引而不是相互排斥的,所以我们可以用库仑定律。

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Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

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so when we think about what it is that this radial probability distribution is telling us, it's telling us that it is most likely that an electron in a 2 s orbital of hydrogen is six times further away from the nucleus than it is in a 1 s orbital.

我们来讨论一下这个径向概率分布,告诉了我们什么，它告诉我们,对于氢原子２ｓ轨道的电子,最可能位置是１ｓ轨道的６倍。

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So, let's think qualitatively for a second about what that means or what the real meaning of that is. What that is telling us is that according to Newtonian mechanics and Coulomb's force law, is that the electron should actually plummet into the nucleus in 0.1 nanoseconds.

让我们定性的想想,这意味着什么,这告诉我们,根据牛顿力学,和库仑定律，电子,在0。1纳秒内,就会掉到原子核里面。

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It's telling us that it's afraid.

它告诉我们它很害怕

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It is telling us that the ground state in lithium would be Z squared.

它告诉我们锂原子的基态,是z的平方。

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