If closed timelike curves exist, ensuring that all events are consistent is just as strange and unnatural to us as a movie played backward, or any other example of evolution that decreases entropy.

如果存在封闭的时间型曲线，那么确信所有事件都保持一致对我们来说就既奇怪又不合乎自然规律，感觉就象从后往前播放电影，或者是其他任何减少一致性的演变实例。

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I believe that if I had criticised him, the gate that was slowly opening would have shut firmly closed.

我认为，如果我批评了他，那扇慢慢打开的门就会紧紧地关上。

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I believe that if I had criticized him, the gate that was slowly opening would have shut firmly closed.

我相信，如果我批评他，那扇正在慢慢打开的门就会紧紧地关上。

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If they approved the constitution without slavery, then Kansas would be closed to new slaves.

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If you have a quantity which is constant over any closed path, that quantity is a thermodynamics state function.

如果有一个物理量,对任何闭合回路积分是常数，这个物理量就是一个热力学态函数。

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So the open curly brace followed by the closed curly brace means everything inside of these curly braces should get executed, but only if that first condition is actually true.

所以左花括号后面跟着,右花括号，这意味着花括号里面所有的代码,都应该是要被执行的，但只有当第一个条件是正确的。

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If you closed on your home before getting hitched, even if your soon-to-be-spouse doesn't qualify for the credit you may be eligible to claim it.

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Some of that pricing pressure could be relieved if Detroit closed a few more factories.

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An unemployed former marine who uses the food bank said it would be "devastating" if it closed.

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