So with apologies for being a bit more boring for twenty minutes, let's do something we'll call formal stuff.

抱歉接下来的二十多钟分可能有点枯燥,我们来做点正经事

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Because, uh, it's one thing to study something in a cold, academic way,

干巴巴的、枯燥的纯理论式学习是一种学习方法，

想学好英语吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now, since we're being nerdy in this class, despite our attempts to go dating, we're being nerdy, let's actually be a little bit careful.

现在的内容的确有点枯燥,尽管我们有对约会的美好追求,但我们还是严谨一点好啊

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23456789 All right, here I gave it a big number, 123456789. And again, I don't want to bore you, but you can see what's going on here with this trend.

我给出一个大数字，又一次，我并不想令你们感到枯燥，但你们可以自己看看会发生些什么,这儿有个有趣的问题。

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Some people say that literature is kind of boring.

有些人说文学很枯燥。

文学是灵魂的方式 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

All I'm doing here, nothing particularly exciting, I'm simply plugging this expression in for P and then I multiplied the whole thing out because it was all multiplied by q.

这些计算过程确实很枯燥,我只是把这个算式代入到P中,然后打开整理,因为每一项都乘以了q

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But that would get very boring, so rather than do that, let's draw a picture.

不过这样做会很枯燥,与其一个一个地算,不如我们画张图吧

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It'll allow us to use our notation and just be a little bit more nerdy.

我们接下来要用枯燥的符号表示了

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