We'll see that next time, and then we'll generalize in a broader sense to look at the direction in which spontaneous processes go. ?

我们下节课将讲述这方面的内容，然后会进一步推广到更广的意义上去,研究任何自发过程,的进行方向？

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And yet, these things are all spontaneous processes.

然而，这些过程都是自发进行的。

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That tells us the direction of spontaneous change for ordinary processes, chemical processes, mixing and you name it, under conditions that are easy to achieve in the lab.

这个物理量告诉我们在实验室,能够实现的条件下通常的过程，化学过程，混合以及你所能想到的过程，自发进行的方向。

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