This is an easy way to do it, because then you've got a linear relationship.

画成这样一个图很简单，因为你有一个线性关系。

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Obviously, this is a very simple model, which only USES a single parameter and assumes a linear relationship.

显然，这是一个很简单的模型，它只使用了一个参数，并假设了一个线性关系。

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Most commonly, they may suppose a linear relationship between variables: when one thing goes up, another goes up or down by a fixed amount.

更为司空见惯的是，他们可能只是假想变量之间的线性关系：当其中一方上升，那么另一方就会按照固定量上升或下降。

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And this is what they had expected that there would be no relationship, but instead here they saw that there was a linear relationship not to the intensity and the kinetic energy of the electrons, but to the intensity and the number of electrons.

另外一个实验,他们预期这两者没有关系,但他们看到的不是,光强和电子动能的,线性关系，而是光强,和电子数的线性关系。

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Dr. BURKETT: It's not a linear relationship.

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As such, I try to explain, this means it is wrong to assume a simplistic linear relationship between tax rates and tax revenue.

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