So people started turning these machines they developed on themselves to try to understand how they worked.

人们开始利用自己发明的器械研究人体,试图了解其运作方式

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For the city, you see, no longer lived in the fashion and ways of our fathers.

现时的城邦生活,已不再像是上一代的运作方式。

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He's constantly sketching the way things work, the way things are.

所以他不断用素描,把事物的原貌和运作方式记下来

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But the other reason to go through the thermodynamic cycles and really to develop great facility with them is because there are just an awful lot of things in nature and things that we build that run in cycles, where we want to calculate the thermodynamics, right.

但是要推导热力学,循环并为之发展一套,完善方法的另外一个原因是,自然界中或人造的那些,我们想计算它们的热力学的东西,有很多是以循环的方式运作的。

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The way these things work, when you are engaged in agriculture, it's natural to go first to that soil, to that patch of land which is known to be likely to produce the best land, the most fertile, the best product, the most fertile land there is.

这一方式是这样运作的,当你从事农业,你自然而然的会首先关注土壤因素,去找出已知土地中最为肥沃的那一块,土地越肥沃,产量越高,就越追求更为肥沃的土地

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So, if you imagine this is growing up as the polis comes into being, let me describe what a hoplite was like and then try to describe what the phalanx was like and how they operated and what are some of the consequences of their coming into being.

假设该战术是随城邦的形成而发展起来的,那就让我来描述一下,重装步兵的组成,方阵的组成及其运作方式,包括该战术发展起来之后所产生的影响

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