Well, if it isn’t intelligence or better analysis, then what could it be?

嗯，如果不是智力或更好的分析，那么会是什么？

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I knew what it meant: The handrail could be completely pulled off and the safety tether might break, and I might therefore be pushed into space.

我知道这意味着什么：扶手可能会被完全扯下来，安全绳可能会断裂，我可能因此被推到太空中去。

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I would be grateful if he could cast an expert eye over it and tell me what he thought of it.

如果他能以专家的眼光看一下它并告诉我他的想法，我将不胜感激。

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This was it. What could be an impossible effort in the history of spaceflight was ready to lift off on its final chance for success.

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But why is it acting? Why specifically acting and why this weird comment at the end, "What could be prettier?"

为什么是表演，为什么是具体的表演，为什么,会有这么奇怪的评论，还能有更漂亮的事情吗“

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As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

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If it does work, Gandy asks, exactly what could it be doing?

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If a payment terminal could be forced into servitude as a crude handheld gaming device, what else could it be made to do?

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His core specialty is understanding technology, what it is now and what it could be, and then driving its evolution and market delivery to maximize corporate value.

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