"That's how I see writing." "It's not so much that it makes your identity, but that it helps you see it, and it helps you be able to define it better and understand it better.

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It used to be that there was zero inflation if you define it with respect to gold and they were really true to that zero inflation in terms of gold.

如果你用金子来定义它,那从来没有过通货膨胀,这是事实,就金子而言没有过通货膨胀。

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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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Some people like to use shallow and deep, object and value, but they're talking about the same thing, which is it the same object or is it the same, in this case, set of values, depending on what you want to define as you use it.

有些人喜欢用对象相等值相等,但是它们是同一件东西，也就是是不是同一个对象，或者是不是同样的，在这个例子中，是同样的值集合，这取决于当你使用它的时候,想要怎么来定义它。

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But a lot of it is just like you define your objectives what you're going for.

但你首先要做的,是明确目标，清楚自己想要什么。

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Actually, you can't say what the share price is because there are zero shares and they have a zero price, so the value of the price per share is zero over zero and you can't define it.

实际上你并不能确定它的股价多少,因为股数为零,其市值也为零,所以每股价值就是,零除以零,无法计算

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It allows you to define the concept of a thermometer. You have three objects, one of them could be a thermometer.

从热的物体流向冷的物体,由此我们可以定义温度，我们还可以用它来定义温度计：

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And so instead of defining efficiency the way you've got it written there, I'm going to define what's called something different for a refrigerator which is called the coefficient of performance.

现在我们不用,效率的那个定义，我给出一个,有关制冷机的,新的定义,叫做制冷系数。

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You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

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And get into the habit of using it to help you define what is the flow of control.

然后是养成用伪代码,来帮助你定义控制流的习惯。

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It depends on what you define, exactly what you define in your system.

它取决于你的定义，尤其是在你系统中的定义。

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the zeroth law, which is the common-sense law, which says that if you take a hot object next to a cold object, heat will flow from the hot to the cold in a way that is well defined, and it allows you to define temperature.

上节课我们讨论了，热力学第零定律,这一定律源自常识：如果把一个热的物体,与一个冷的物体挨在一起，热量就会以确定的方式。

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