This machinery is so precise that a human hair couldn't even pass between the heads and spinning platters, yet it all works in terrific speeds.

这些设备是很紧密的以至于人的头发,都不能在头和旋转的磁盘之间通过，尽管如此，它的运行速度非常快。

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and now that I'm in college, I don't really... the way that university works in the United States.

上了大学之后，我不能……按美国大学的教育体制，

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I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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This isn't how the world works in -- this isn't the Miltonic universe.

世界不是这样运作的，这也不是弥尔顿式的宇宙。

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