"It is a promise that as long as I am your Commander in Chief, I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support you need to get the job done,"

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This chart, very boring and uninteresting but useful to say there are very well defined rules as to when you're writing code, what operators, like what syntax should get evaluated first.

这个图表，看起来很烦，很无趣，但是它很有用,有非常明确的规定,譬如，当你写代码时，就会涉及操作符的优先级。

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the zeroth law, which is the common-sense law, which says that if you take a hot object next to a cold object, heat will flow from the hot to the cold in a way that is well defined, and it allows you to define temperature.

上节课我们讨论了，热力学第零定律,这一定律源自常识：如果把一个热的物体,与一个冷的物体挨在一起，热量就会以确定的方式。

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What will happen is that Yale will continue to hold a relatively well-diversified portfolio as defined by the range of asset classes in which it invests.

实际上,耶鲁会继续保持,一个相对合理多样化的投资模式,来进行多种资产的投资

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Realize in programming languages like C, there is a set of very well-defined rules, and this is in the recommended books.

同样，在像C语言这样的编程语言里，也有,一套非常明确的规则，这些都在推荐图书里面。

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In this case defined chiefly by their intelligence, but other things too. Well, anyway in this case, in Greek political thinking the aristocracy of birth is the default position.

这主要取决于他们的才能,不过也包含其他方面,不管怎样,那个时候在希腊人的政治思维中,贵族统治就是初始的状态

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Moreover, modern therapists, including some people who aren't psychoanalytically defined, will say, "Look. These drugs are all well and good " but what they do is they mask the symptoms."

而且，现代的心理治疗师们，包括一些非精神分析治疗师在内，都会说，“这些药效果非常好,但它们治标不治本“

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And what here is just a graph of the 1 s wave function going across some radius defined this way, and you can see that the probability - well, this is the wave function, so we would have to square it and think about the probability.

这里是,1s波函数,沿这个方向的图，你们可以看到概率,这是波函数，所以我们可以把它平方,并想成是概率。

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You've got to spend the time to make sure that everything is well defined before you start trying to work out these problem More about the path. There are a couple ways you could go through that pass If I look at this smooth path here.

你要花时间确认,在你开始尝试解题前,切已经被很好地定义,关于路径还有些问题,你可以用两种不同的方式经过这条路径,看这条平滑的路径。

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And the temperature scale that turns out to be well-defined and ends up giving us the concept of an absolute zero is the ideal gas thermometer.

比如理想气体温标,它有精确的定义,并能引出绝对零度的概念,今天我们就先来谈谈它。

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And maybe if it some well-defined temperature and pressure.

这两个态可以具备确定的,温度和压强。

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Although, I said, insurance was effectively discovered or invented in the 1600s, it has been slow to grow because they didn't have the well-defined-- all of the inventions yet.

尽管我说过，保险实际上,是在17世纪的时候被发现或者发明的，但它的发展非常缓慢,因为人们无法确切定义-,这种被发明出的东西。

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If security selection is a zero-sum game, the amount by which the winner wins equals the amount by which the loser loses -winners and losers being defined by performance after a security selection that has been made -well, that sounds like a zero-sum game.

如果证券选择是一个零和博弈,赢方赚得的金额,等于输方赔付的金额,谁赢谁输取决于,双方投资在证券选择后的表现,这听起来确实像个零和博弈

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