这物质和水有亲和力。

This substance has an affinity for water.

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没有人知道这物质世界有多大。

No one knows how large the physical universe is.

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另外一个小组使用氧化物样板去在有孔的铝的氧化物中产生纳米银线。线与线之间的距离小于可见光的波长。这物质通过折射光，在可见光范围内工作。

The other team used an oxide template to grow silver nanowires inside porous aluminum oxide. The spacing between the wires was smaller than the wavelength of visible light.

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How to go from one reference point to the other with this property. This property, f which we're going to call f.

这两个参考点插值,得到不同温度时工作物质的特性，我们把这一特性记做。

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He's able to justify the ways of God to men here on the physical - on this intimately bodily earth.

弥尔顿得以从这具体的物质的人间的角度,证明了上帝待人之法。

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But we can use equations that describe waves to describe matter, and that's what we're going to be doing today.

但我们可以用描述波的方程,来描述物质，这就是我们今天要做的。

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