In the spring of 2007 Jason Kilar was trying to beef up the video offerings of his employer, Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, when he got a call from a headhunting firm.

2007年春季的一天，贾森•基拉尔(Jason Kilar)正在绞尽脑汁为他的雇主，全球最大的在线零售商亚马逊网站，扩展视频业务。

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Let's call it a massless spring.

我们叫它无质量弹簧。

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I’ll still call it blue outside at noon on a sunny spring day in New York, even though itlooks a slightly different color here than in the closet.

在纽约春天有太阳的中午，我仍然称作蓝色。 在衣柜里看起来有一点不同。

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A lot of people call South by Southwest Interactive the geek spring break.

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Then later, when the Earth gets away from the sun and starts to slow down, that's the time of year we call spring and summer.

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One afternoon that spring, I received a call from Jimmy, who was teaching in a village near the Yangtze River.

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Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

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