They seemed to be discussing something important.

他们似乎在讨论重要的事情。

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They were discussing something important when I went in.

我进去时他们正在讨论一件重要的事情。

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As is so often the case in my family, the original subject leads to another and another, until we are discussing something quite different.

正如我家常常出现的情况，最初的话题会引出其它一个又一个新问题，直到我们谈论的内容与最初的毫不沾边为止。

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So, that's the difference in thinking about different types of ionization energy, so it can get a little bit confusing with terminology if you're just looking at something quickly, so make sure you look really carefully about what we're discussing here.

所以，这就是我们,在思考不同类型的电离能时所看到的不同，因此如果你看得不够仔细的话,你可能会被其中的术语弄迷糊了，所以一定要看仔细,我们讨论的是什么。

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Now, I'm going to be rather quicker in discussing this family of arguments, but let me take at least a couple of minutes and do something about that.

现在,我会加速,讨论这类论证,但起码让我花几分钟,来稍微提一下

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