It is an example of what I call the imperialism of the straight line, where you have large boulevards that you can march armies down to, reviewing stands and all of that, totally different than Moscow.

我所称的帝国主义直线型风格的范本,有足以让军队列队通过的宽阔的林荫大道,还有阅兵台之类的设计,这些和莫斯科太不一样了

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So here we have energy increasing on the y-axis, and you see this straight line at the bottom here is lower down on the graph, and that's the energy of a bound electron, so that's going to be a low stable energy.

这里我们看到能量沿着y轴增加，而且在这张图片上,这条直线在底部是降低的，那是一个束缚电子的能量，所以那是一个低稳态能量。

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So here's the straight line, and this line is the expected payoff to Player I from choosing Down as it depends on the probability that the other person chooses Right, and then once again, we can write down the equation.

这就是第三条直线了,它表示参与人I选择下获得的收益,是另一个参与人,选右概率的一个函数,对于这一条直线,我们依然能够给出方程式

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