As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

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And so in theory after just 2 or 3 steps you were in order of magnitude farther along in this counting process than I would be because I'd still be on person literally 3 or 4.

因此从理论上说,经过这样短短的两三个步骤,你们就有了分级次序，比我数数快多了,因为我才数到第三四个人。

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When we separated banking from investment banking, on the theory the investment banking had natural proclivity to get from another folly to do it.

当我们把银行业务从投行分离出去的时候，由于理论上说投行的本性决定了其容易犯错误,决定了其容易犯错误。

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And these tree trunks were the chords and at the base of each of these chords at least conceptually, theoretically, is this thing called the root.

这些树干就是和弦，而每个和弦的底部，从理论上说，就是被称为根的东西。

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Well,it doesn't seem plausible in terms of the personality theory to say that he's Shelly Kagan, and the one here today--Suppose the other one's in Michigan.

似乎从人格理论上来看,说他是Shelly，Kagan是不对的，假设另一个人现在正处密歇根。

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