He says he hopes the U.S.and Burma could "take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future."

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The second law is going to define entropy, and is going to tell us about the direction of time, something that conceptually we, clearly, understand but is going to put a mathematical foundation on which way does time go.

第二定律定义了熵，它告诉我们,时间的流向，虽然我们清楚地,知道这个概念,但还是要为时间流动的方向,建立一个数学基础。

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