But why did they use iron chains to chain up the pillars?

可是为什么要用铁链把这些柱子拴起来啊？

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And, a hundred years ago in some European hospitals, fear of violence during full moons led doctors to chain up patients thought to be lunatics.

一百年前，欧洲的一些医院在月圆时因为担心会出现暴力行为，而用链子绑住那些被认为是疯子的患者。

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And a hundred years ago in some European hospitals fear of violence during full moons led doctors to chain up patients thought to be lunatics.

一百年前，欧洲的一些医院在月圆时因为担心会出现暴力行为，而用链子绑住那些被认为是疯子的患者。

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To represent that chain of events, a long line of oversized, brightly painted dominoes has been set up running for one-and-a-half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood.

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The other chain is facing in the other direction, the 3' carbon is up, the 5' carbon is down.

对面的那条单链方向相反,3'位的碳原子向上,5'位的碳原子向下

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They're colored different here to indicate one new difference that you know about now, and that's that there is an orientation, there's an up and down on the chain.

这里被涂成不同的颜色,来表示另一个不同之处,它是有方向的,表示双链一条向上,一条向下

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Plus, with dual Thunderbolt ports, the user can daisy chain up to six Thunderbolt peripherals together.

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It offers simultaneous bi-directional 10Gbps transfer speeds over a single cable, with the flexibility to daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt-ready devices with a single connection as well as offering full display port support for a 7th Thunderbolt or display port equipped monitor.

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The designs ceased to be novel, the excitement wore off and the chain ended up with a sluggish pile of inventory.

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