It was a question of constructing an elaborate formal edifice to which everybody could contribute. Students got excited about it.

现在的精读已形成了一种精确而正式的体系,每个人都可以做出自己的贡献，学生当然会对此感兴趣。

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So thermodynamics, based on these four laws now, requires an edifice, and it's a very mature science, and it requires that we define things carefully.

热力学是一座，建立在这四条定律上的大厦,它是一门非常成熟的科学，也要求我们在定义东西时非常小心。

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It's pretty remarkable that the whole edifice is set up by just one person.

值得注意的是,整个物理大厦,是由一个人搭建起来的

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and added a structure of math upon it, to build this edifice, which is a very solid edifice of thermodynamics as a science of equilibrium systems.

了这座热力学的坚固大厦，这是一门，平衡态系统,的科学。

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Of course, we have to also know how to plug in the numbers so we can pass all the tests, but it's good to understand the nature of the edifice set up by Newton.

当然,我们首先要知道怎么代数字,这样我们考试才能过关,但是如果能理解,牛顿的这一伟大杰作的本质就更好了

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