Some countries are blaming the United States for sparking the economic crisis through the deregulation of its financial scene - a move that led to a credit crunch and sparked an economic recession.

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So if you have more conceptual oriented questions, you can absolutely bring them to office hours, but just realize there's always a crunch time wise, especially on Wednesday's and Thursday's.

如果有很多概念方面的问题，你完全可以把它们带到办公时间来，但是请认识到，总是有零零碎碎的时间的，特别是在周三和周四。

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so I, you know, I enjoy that sort of intense effort, the sort of adrenaline that goes with the crunch

我就喜欢那种高强度的努力，那种肾上腺素增长的感觉。

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Once you've got that, one derivative will give you the velocity, then in a crunch you can eliminate t and put it into this formula.

一旦你得到了这个,求一阶导数就能得到速度,然后你可以消去t,把它代入这个式子

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It's a very, sort of a crunch and then downtime.

有时候紧张，有时候松一些。。

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During crunch periods, you can work twelve hours a day,

高峰期一天12个小时，

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