These are not seconds, or unbranded goods, but first-quality products.

这些既不是次品也不是无牌货，而是质量一流的产品。

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If the reaction took hours and not seconds, the fuel costs would be prohibitive.

假如这一反应还需数小时而不是几秒钟，那么燃料成本就太高了。

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How do you count time in a marriage? In a career? In a research project? What is the measure of time during an illness? Not seconds, minutes, hours, days.

在一场婚姻中你如何计算时间？在一个职业生涯中？在一项研究中？在一场疾病中用什么方式来计时？不是使用秒，分，小时，天来计算时间的。

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The one thing you want to keep in mind though is that Hertz does not actually mean inverse seconds, it means cycles per second. So, if you're talking about a car going so many meters per second, you can't say it's going meter Hertz, you have to say meters per second.

写成5每秒，或5赫兹,你们要记住的是赫兹,并不等于秒的倒数，它是每秒的循环数，如果你们说,一辆车一秒可以走多少米,你不能说它走了米赫兹。

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Do not think of a pink elephant for the next three seconds ? and I am sure no one thought of a pink elephant right?

在接下来的十秒钟里不要想粉色大象,我肯定没有人想一头粉色大象，是吗？

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So for the next ten seconds, do not think of a pink elephant.

在接下来的十秒钟里，不要想粉色大象。

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On time means five minutes early, not thirty seconds late.

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