If I know about the states involved, I just need to know what the volume was in each of them.

我们并不需要知道一条特定过程的路径，如果我们知道所涉及的态,我仅仅需要知道这些态的体积。

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So as it were,we might say, it might be that mere survival or bare bones survival doesn't really give me what matters.

所以我们可以说，仅仅生存下去,肉体的存活并不是我需要的。

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