We had no idea what was going on with the system, with how people were using it. We were making guesses.

我们不知道这个系统会怎么样，也不知道人们用得怎么样，我们只是在猜测。

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I'm using it just to make the point, which you already know about; that the nervous system is complex in it performs a complex set of functions.

我想通过这张图片阐述一些,你们已经知道的知识,即神经系统是一个,功能复杂的复合体

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Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

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