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基本解释

So, what do I mean by these words?
那么，我的这些话是什么意思？
But what do we mean by globalization?
那么，全球化又意味着什么呢？
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.
这方面的进展非常缓慢，在很大程度上，目前不在于美国何时回归充分就业，而在于“充分就业”出现时将意味着什么。
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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.
对理想气体它是零,这点我们接下来会知道是,为什么，这与为什么我们叫它理想气体有关。
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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.
如果我们所说的意识,就是指我们心理活动定性的方面,那么意识还是一个很大的谜团
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See this to get more context about what I mean by that statement.
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