For years, there has been considerable debate about the meaning of "work based on" or "derivative work" in the software context.

多年来，对于在软件这一前提下“基于……的产品”或“衍生产品”这两个术语的含义有相当多的争议。

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In the latter, we are using a Latin derivative which has exactly the same meaning.

在后一种情况中，我们用的是一个有着完全相同含义的拉丁派生词。

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Opposite to the derivative litigation, the direct litigation has the more important meaning to shareholders.

相对于派生诉讼而言，股东直接诉讼提起权对于股东而言具有更为重要的意义。

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The Joule experiment was a constant energy experiment, right. Here we're going to have to find a constant enthalpy experiment, and that is going to be the Joule-Thomson experiment. That's going to extract out a physical meaning to this derivative here.

非常像焦耳实验,焦耳实验是一个能量恒定的实验,我们这里要做的是，找到一个焓不变的实验,也就是焦耳-汤姆逊实验,这个实验可以把这里的微分式形象化。

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Then, to find the meaning of b, we take one derivative of this, dx/dt, that's velocity as a function of time, and if you took the derivative of this guy, you will find as at+b. That's the velocity of the object.

接下来,为了弄清b的含义,我们取它的一阶导数,dx/dt,得到速度作为时间的函数,如果你对它求导的话,你会得到at+b,这就是物体的速度

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And here I mean the older, medical meaning of the word the transformation from soft tissue into the bone upon which all is built rather than the more recent derivative meaning of becoming inflexible, rigid and formulaic.

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