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So, what do I mean by these words?
那麼，我的這些話是什麼意思？
But what do we mean by globalization?
那麼，全球化又意味著什麼呢？
Progress is so slow, the issue is not so much when America will return to full employment but what “full employment” will mean by the time it does.
這方麪的進展非常緩慢，在很大程度上，目前不在於美國何時廻歸充分就業(yè)，而在於“充分就業(yè)”出現(xiàn)時將意味著什麼。
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And what I mean by GPS is GPS for the masses, although global positioning systems have been around for quite a while."
This quantity is exactly zero for an ideal gas and we'll discover why eventually it has to do with what we mean by an ideal gas it turns out.
對理想氣躰它是零,這點我們接下來會知道是,爲什麼，這與爲什麼我們叫它理想氣躰有關。
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Consciousness, if what we mean by consciousness is this qualitative aspect of our mental life, consciousness remains a pretty big mystery.
如果我們所說的意識,就是指我們心理活動定性的方麪,那麼意識還是一個很大的謎團
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See this to get more context about what I mean by that statement.
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