几个世纪以来中非部落和古埃及一直在描述一种奇怪的生物，欧洲人把它通俗地称为“非洲独角兽”。

Central African tribes and ancient Egyptians described and depicted a bizarre creature for centuries, colloquially dubbed the "African unicorn" by Europeans.

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语言允许说话者说一些特定的事情：描述一种文化观念的词可能无法准确地翻译成另一种语言。

Language allows speakers to say certain things: words that describe a cultural idea may not translate exactly into another language.

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我曾认为我会描述一种状态；制成一张悲伤的地图。

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow.

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It's really, in a sense, the physical image is of rain; it's raining, so it's leaking all over it.

这在某种意义上确实是，下雨的一种具体的描述;,因为在下雨，所以天空像是在漏水。

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I'm going to throw it, or raise it, to use the right term to somebody in case they can handle it, but it's a particular kind of exception I might do something like, remind you I have test.

编译器就要抛出他或者提出它,用正确的描述给某个人来处理,但他的确是一种异常,我来做些类似的事情，告诉你我有些测试。

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Now we want to show a notation, how do we go from one equilibrium state like this describes to another equilibrium state?

现在我们要展示一种记号，来标记）我们如何,从这里描述的,这样的一个平衡态过渡到另一个平衡态？

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