结果清楚地表明，这些鸟是根据星星来确定方向的。

The results clearly indicated that the birds were orienting according to the stars.

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在指南针发明之前，水手们必须依靠星星来确定方向。

Before it was invented, sailors had to depend on the stars to find direction.

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因此，克雷默推测，他们是根据太阳的位置来确定方向的。

Kramer surmised, therefore, that they were orienting according to the position of the Sun.

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These are the pentoses - remember 5' and 3' because that orients you with respect to what direction the molecule is facing.

这些就是戊糖,记住了5'碳和3'碳就能够,帮你确定分子的方向

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So in this case, it just keeps chopping down from the back end, which kind of makes sense, all right? But in a fixed number, in fact, twenty-three calls, it gets down to the point of being able to say whether it's there.

所以在这个例子中,我们能理解他从后端开始排除元素，这，里事实上每次会确定的运行23次，找到最终的元素,我们来换个方向，对。

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And so, we'll be able of follow that further and see really how to determine the direction of spontaneity for a whole set of processes,really in principle for any processes, went analyzed properly.

我们接下来，就进一步看看,怎么确定一个,任意自发物理,过程的方向，的整个过程。

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