That would be the basement of some building where they have the boiler.

这间地下室旁,装有锅炉

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Now, if you're an engineer, and you use the ideal gas law to design a chemical plant or a boiler or an electrical plant, you know, a steam plant, you're going to be in big trouble.

比如说锅炉，蒸汽机,我们会遇到一个大问题：,我们设计的机器将无法运作，因为对大部分实际气体。

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The reason they call them boiler rooms is, if you are selling stocks by telephone there's no reason to rent a nice office, so you get the cheapest -so you put a whole bank of telephones in the cheapest place.

它之所以被叫做锅炉房是因为,如果通过电话进行买卖交易,你没有必要去租一间漂亮的办公室,于是你租了最便宜的出租房,然后在那儿放满电话

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