Even though race courses are measured accurately, many racers run a longer distance (and therefore a slower finish time) by following every curve in the road.

尽管跑步的课程都是精确的测量，许多选手跑的曲线都是较长的路程(因此以一个较慢的时间完成)。

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A tangent is a straight line that just touches a curve, so the concept of "running the tangents" is to run the shortest distance possible by running straight from one curve to the next.

切线是一条直线，刚好接触到曲线，所以跑切线是从一个弯道跑到另一个最短的距离。

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The purpose of "lactate threshold" training, then, is to move your lactate curve to the right so that you can run faster before reaching this "threshold."

“乳酸门槛”训练的目的是，将您的乳酸曲线向右移动，这样，在达到这一“门槛”之前，您将跑得更快。

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If you run these curves only on non-smokers you get rid of that J at the end of the curve and you get pretty much a function that's to the right of the curve here.

如果仅在不吸烟人群中做统计,那么左末端就不会出现J形曲线,而是会得到一条,从左到右逐渐上升的完美的函数曲线

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Financial institutions can play help aggregate demand and run down the cost curve of the industry.

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Bolt proved that last year when he clocked 14.35 for 150m in Manchester in May, then was timed at "only" 14.44 to that point during his epic 200m in Berlin, having run the first 100m on a curve.

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