As for cost,Dr.Miller says patients with a heart pump spend less time in a hospital and have lower hospital costs than patients with severe heart disease.

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That example I gave last time with the bicycle pump was not quite the right example.

上次我举打气筒的例子,是不太恰当的。

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You're taking the air inside of the pump and you're compressing it. You're doing it so fast that there's not enough time for heat to come out of the gas that's inside the pump towards the walls of the pump.

你把空气吸进气筒里并且压缩它,你的动作很快以至于,没有足够的时间让热量,从气筒里面跑出来,传递到气筒壁上。

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This time the pump-priming may come too late to relieve a far more serious downturn.

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We know that the clock mechanism soon broke down, and it was up to the eunuchs to pump water manually every time the emperor was passing in front of the statues.

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