This is providing work that's being used in here, but if you take the whole outside of the surroundings and this whole thing is the system, no net work, these things cancel each other, and yet heat's going up.

如果把外面的全部当成环境，把这里的全部当成系统,那么就没有净的功，它们相互抵消了，热量向上传输，会发生什么？

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We have to resist excessive commitment to this idea of it being a center, but it is at least not a center which somehow stands outside of itself and is a center only in the sense that it is some remote, hidden, impersonal, distant cause.

我们必须反对对这个观点过多的承诺,这个人为它是中心的观点，但它至少不是一个,以某种方式处于自身之外的中心，而只在某种意义上是中心,比如说，它有些偏僻，隐蔽，客观，遥远。

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