我在候诊室里花了一整天来校订我那篇手稿，它惟一重要的作用就是分散我焦急的心情。

I spent the day in the waiting room polishing a manuscript whose only significance was its power to distract.

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同样，要考虑家人和朋友的抑郁风险。在帮助他们及早治疗、预防恶化的过程中，你可能会起到重要的作用。

Consider, too, the risks of your family and friends. You might play an important role in helping them get early treatment to prevent worse symptoms in the future.

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其二是要发扬团队精神，不论是在学校生活还是在社会生活中，只要是处在一个集体中这一点都会起到非常重要的作用。

Second we should develop a team spirit whether we are in school life or social life as long as we are in a team and that is very important.

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And this'll lead into what you're going to see next time as well as what you're going to do tomorrow.

这会对于你,接下来要学到的,和明天要做的东西起一个引导作用。

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All right. The other thing I have to teach you is matter-energy interaction so that we can see how the Balmer series validates the Bohr model.

好的，我要教你们的里一个知识点是,物质能量的相互作用，我们可以见证,巴尔末线系是怎样证实波尔模型的。

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As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

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