We cannot do anything about protons, they are buried in the nucleus, but we can add or subtract electrons.

我们不能改变质子，它们埋藏在原子核内，但是我们能够增加或减少电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

If you're not updating some variable by incrementing it or decrementing it -- if you're not changing anything, presumably the conditions are never going to evaluate to false or the opposite, so you're just going to have an infinite loop, which might be your goal, but odds are it's not.

如果你不通过增加或减少它来改变一些变量,-如果你不改变什么，大概那个条件永远不会变成错误的,或相反的，所以你将得到一个无限循环，那可能是你的目标，但可能也不是。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But beyond the extremes, additions or subtractions to our external circumstances make very little difference.

但在这些极端情况之外，增加或减少的外部环境,产生的区别很小。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But every bard added and subtracted things to suit his own talents.

但每个诗人又根据自己的智慧,增加或减少一些内容

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We think a lot about weight in this country, but weight is a remarkably carefully controlled parameter of a person, that is, you have to work pretty hard to gain weight or to lose weight.

我们身在一个特别关注体重的国家,然而体重是一个,需要小心地控制地人体指标,这就是说,你必须付出相当多的努力,才能增加或减少体重

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

What has been found over the last 10 years and a little bit longer is the most effective way of actually dealing with a rising levels of depression in our culture, with individual depression or anxiety is actually not to that is important as well.

过去10年多时间的研究发现,处理我们不断增加的抑郁病例,个体的抑郁或焦虑，最有效方法是,这点也很重要。

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