Spruce Knob has more than one hundred kilometers of hiking trails.

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Something I can measure and I can tabulate, and when I turn my dT knob here I know what's going to happen to the enthalpy.

----热容，我们可以用实验，测出热容并成表,当我知道这里的变量。

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OK, but in order to relate turning these physical knob to this quantity here, which we don't have a very good feel for, we've got to have a feel for the slopes.

热量是怎么进一步改变的,但是为了把这些物量同我们，不是很理解的焓联系起来，我们对微分已经有了一定的了解。

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And the experimenter is back there with the speed knob and at random intervals he just speeds up the tape of their heart and then slows it down.

实验者回到实验室，带着录音设备,随机地,他加速了心跳的录音,然后又慢下来。

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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