It creates as a distance between two points, rather than a straight line, an arabesque.

它加长了两点之间的距离，使它变得非直而曲。

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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line - unless you happen to be traveling in an airplane.

两点之间直线最短——航班却不走直线。

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"We essentially measure the distance between two points, but we have to do it very, very well, " Zuber said.

从本质上讲，我们是在测量两点之间的距离，但是我们必须做得非常，非常的准确。” Zuber说。

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It creates as a distance between two points, rather than a straight line, an arabesque.

它加长了两点之间的距离，使它变得非直而曲。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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But what we're saying is there's a node here, so that there's no probability of finding an electron between those two points.

但我们说在节点这里，这两点是,不可能发现电子的。

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If the quickest route between two points is a straight line, what's one who is traveling from Boston to Paris and needs to get there soonest to do?

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Einstein's theory of relativity unified these and created a four-dimensional space that is an analogue to our three-dimensional space, except that the "distance" between two points need not be positive.

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"It means if you take an area one degree by one degree, latitude by longitude, which at the equator is roughly 100km by 100km, you can take any two points in the DEM and the error between the two points is less than two metres, " he told me.

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