To most listeners, the messages meant nothing but to the informed few, they could mean anything from 'blow up a section of railway line' at a given point, to 'a new SOE agent will arrive shortly'.

对于大多数听众来说，这些信息毫无用处，但是对于那些少数人来说，这可能意味着通知他们在指定点上“炸毁一节铁路”或是“特别行动局的特工马上要来了”。

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A sawtooth wave rises (or falls) in a straight line from a starting point to an ending point, at which time it instantaneously jumps back to the starting value.

锯齿波从某一始点到某一终点沿着一条直线上升(或者下降)，在终点的时候它马上跃迁回其起始值。

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When you use the line tool in your favorite design software, with the default Settings, you get a perfectly straight line from point a to point B.

在你最喜欢的设计工具中使用直线工具时，只需要采用默认设置，你就能画出特定两点间的完美直线。

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So there's going to be a line that's going to connect the initial point to the final point, and that line mathematically is not going to be the same as this one here.

连接绝热过程,初末态的曲线的方程，和等温线的方程,也不会相同。

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I can try other portfolios; this one right here--I'm pointing to a point on the pink line-- that point right there, 50% stocks, 50% bonds.

还可以尝试其它组合;,这一点，粉色曲线上我指的这一点-,表示50%的股票，50%的债券。

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That's a choice, and that choice turns out to be very interesting and really important, because if you connect these two points together, you get a straight line that has to intercept the x-axis at some point.

在这一选择下,我们会发现一件非常有趣，而且极其重要的事,当你把这两点用直线连接起来，你会发现这条直线,将与x轴在某点相交。

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In recent years, it extended a rail line to a point nearby the facility and it tested a large rocket engine at the facility in November 2010.

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In the end, he needed to make a pass two corners from the finish line to claim the title by a solitary point 98 to 97.

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The numbers clearly point to a downward sloping line for venture fundraising, both quarter by quarter and year over year.

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