It sounds pretty silly, but it's really important because it allows you to define a thermometer and temperature.

这听起来相当白痴，但是它确实很重要,因为它让你可以定义,温度计和温度。

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I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

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