In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

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The thermos, with the lid on top, It's not a open system your coffee is going to stay warm or hot in the thermos.

顶部盖了盖子的热水瓶，不是开系,你希望你的咖啡在热水瓶里面保持温暖,或滚烫。

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So a closed system would be, for instance, a glass of ice water with an ice cube in it, with the lid on top.

因此闭系可以是，比如说，一杯放了,一个冰块的冰水，顶上加了盖子。

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A state where it's closed, so imagine a channel with a lid on top of it; when it's closed nothing can go through the channel, when it's open then things can go through.

一种是闭合状态,想想一个有盖子的通道吧,当盖子合上的时候任何东西都不能通过,而打开时就畅通无阻

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