The concept of regression goes back to the mathematician Gauss, who talked about fitting a line through a scatter of points.

回归这个概念要追溯到数学家高斯,讨论的是从若干散点中切合出一条直线

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What Gauss did was said, let's fit a line through the point-- the scatter of points--and that's called the regression line.

高斯说,做这样的一条直线,切合所有散点,这就是回归直线

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Shigeru We will be doing it as we travel with Shigeru through different points going to the train station or from the train station on the bus, looking to see how it was the same as it used to or how it's different from what they know.

我们会跟随着,在来往火车站的旅途中,从不同角度，体验七夕节,同以往相比的异同。

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And there is this heartbreaking love that Sal has for Dean, and, if you track that through, the major turning points in the second two thirds of the novel are moments when Sal makes it clear to Dean that he actually cares about him.

而且萨尔对迪安有着令人悲痛的爱情，如果你追踪这一点，你就会发现小说里,三分之二的时间萨尔都在,向迪安说明他有多在乎迪安。

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