There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated "race to the finish line", whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or a lucrative career.

总是有一种持续不断的恐惧，害怕在社会上长期存在的“冲向终点线”的竞赛中落在别人后面，不管是进入研究生院、医学院还是获得一份赚钱的职业。

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Gerardus Mercator's projection, published in 1569, was immediately useful because it depicts a line of constant bearing as a straight line, which is handy for Marine navigation.

福西厄斯•墨卡托的投影于1569年问世，马上就派上了用场，因为它把不变的方位描绘为直线，这对航海非常方便。

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So let's see. The first line, that print thing, is obviously constant, right?

显然是恒定的，对吧？,就把他当成一些固定的操作？

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If you want to write a function that describes this line here, it's pressure as a function of volume related to each other with this constant.

如果要写出描述这条等温线的方程,它的压强和体积,就通过常数C相联系起来。

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So this line or these lines of code up here are arguably constant time steps to say if N is less than 2 in return, that it will always take maybe one step, maybe two steps, some number of fixed CPU cycles.

如果N小于2并返回,那么这些行所对应的代码,通常只需要执行一步，或者两步，具体数字与CPU周期有关。

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Sharks are smooth, steady swimmers, so the pull on the line was constant and heavy rather than the spastic tugging that I have experienced from other fish.

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The energy travels in a straight line at a constant speed.

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The cast of characters building to the punch line is in constant flux, but as it happens, this is the group gathered around a kitchen table on a quiet street in Bethesda, Maryland, one night this past spring.

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