So what is this thing called art?

那，这个叫“艺术”的玩意到底是什么呢？

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What is This Thing Called Happiness?

这个叫幸福的东西是什么？

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What is this thing called the world?

这个被称作“世界”的到底是个什么东西？

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What is this thing, a telegraph?

这是什么,一个电报机吗

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Thermodynamics is asking you, what work does this thing do on the surroundings or the surroundings do on the system?

热力学在问你们，到底是系统对环境做功,还是环境对系统做功？

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The exception is right there. It's an index error, that is it's trying to do something going beyond the range of what this thing could deal with.

但他事实上抛出一个异常，异常就在这里，这是一个下标错误,它是试图去取超出范围的元素造成的。

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What is this thing going to feel like in my hands?

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What is this thing called connections?

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Now we're fooling around in the dark trying to figure out what this thing is.

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