A "steep" learning curve, in colloquial usage, usually means experiencing a large and increasing amount of effort for a constant amount of learning, i.e. approaching a natural limit.

用通俗的说法，陡的学习曲线表明同等量的学习需要付出很大而且还在增大的努力，即达到了自然极限。

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You can adjust the recursion depth limit by changing a constant defined in Listing 4.

可以通过修改清单4中定义的常量来改变最大递归深度。

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And we know that it's this constant value in the high temperature limit.

它是常数，我们知道在高温极限时。

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I'm going to call it r. It's going to be the gas constant, and now I have r times t is equal to the limit, p goes to zero of p r.

如果去掉p趋于0的条件,在有限压强下都,保持RT=pV的关系。

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And so now we have this quantity, p times v bar, and the limit of p goes to zero is equal to a constant times the temperature.

不仅仅对氢气或氮气适用，在p趋于0的极限下,它适用于任何气体。

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Apparently, I was exceeding the default limit when on the highway and that was the constant bonging noise I was hearing.

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