"In terms of diplomacy and conflict resolution, he did say that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue was a major input, and he immediately named Senator George Mitchell as his envoy in order to work on that particular issue,"

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The work input during the expansion steps.

膨胀过程中的功。

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get back to the initial point is going to require some input from outside, like heat or extra work or extra heat or something because you've done an irreversible process.

如果要逆转它,回到初始点，就需要外界的投入，比如额外的功，额外的热量等等,因为你进行了一个不可逆过程。

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