A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
零
Zero
In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional divergence of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.
一开始，上帝说，一个反对称二阶张量的四维散度等于零，有光。
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
如果我知道你很擅长音乐，我就能以几乎为零的准确度预测你在其他方面的表现是好是坏。
If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
如果你已经成为一个大明星，但你仍然在做你和朋友们写的音乐，当你赚不到钱的时候，你是懒惰的。
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
为大乐队作曲的在世作曲家寥寥无几。他们并不多，而我有做这件事的天赋。我把注意力集中在我最擅长的事情上。
No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.
还没有人在月球上玩。没有人在零重力下玩。有些乐队曾在吉萨金字塔演奏过，但我们非常希望在不久的将来也能这样做。
It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.
很明显，语音通信正在转向互联网。最终，任何人都可以在网上提供语音传输的价格将趋向于零。
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
氢动力汽车，以其高燃油里程和零排放率，只是一个例子的产品正在开发，将有助于提高我们的能源独立性。
We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.
我们认为，经济学不一定非得是一场零和游戏;只要拥有成功的工具，这对每个参与者来说都是一个双赢的提议。
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.
我希望人们记住哪五本书?嗯…零，我特别喜欢这个。这在某种程度上是一种绝技，我认为它传达了我想要表达的东西。
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.
然而，尽管人们普遍认为应采取货币政策以避免通缩，但央行不能将利率降至零下限以下。
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
如果心脏停止跳动超过两分钟，你的大脑就会大量死亡。我们的意识世界和零之间只有两分钟。这就是我们的意识是多么脆弱。
I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it’s possible I look like a total moron.
我低下头，透过睫毛向上看着他，我希望这是一种吸引人的方式。我在这方面没有任何经验，所以我可能看起来像个十足的傻瓜。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
抽象是每个人都是零，但没有人是零。
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
要求控制甚至接近零排放在经济上是不可能的。
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
编程不是零和游戏。向程序员同行传授一些东西并不会让你失去它。我很乐意分享我所能做的，因为我热爱编程。
I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
我想对所有家长制的废话采取零容忍政策。
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
过去9年的记忆让世贸中心遗址从一个恐怖的地方变成了一个让人悲伤的地方，变成了一个滑稽的艺术作秀的地方，现在又变成了一个非常接近戏仿的地方。