可可电台，每期节目一话题，让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识，丰富知识的同时受益于生活。

The things everyone should know about time.

关于时间，每个人都该知道的事。

Complexity comes and goes.

复杂性增加又减少。

Other than creationists, most people have no trouble appreciating the difference between“orderly”(low entropy) and“complex.”

除了神创论者，大多数人都能够明白“有序（低熵）”和“复杂”的区别。

Entropy increases, but complexity is ephemeral; it increases and decreases in complex ways, unsurprisingly enough.

熵在不断增加，但复杂状态是短暂的；复杂性以复杂的方式增加和减少，这一点也不令人意外。

Part of the“job”of complex structures is to increase entropy, e.g. in the origin of life.

复杂结构存在的“意义”之一就是使各种过程——比如生命起源——中的熵增加。

But we’re far from having a complete understanding of this crucial phenomenon.

但我们还远未能对这一至关重要的现象有全面的理解。

【知识点讲解】

far from 远离； 远非，不但不…；

例句：

The current sole superpower is far from being a disinterested observer.

当前唯一的超级大国远不是一个公正的旁观者。

Far from being relaxed, we both felt so uncomfortable we hardly spoke.

我们两人非但没有放松，反而都感觉很不自在，几乎没有说话。

Being dyslexic does not mean that one is unintelligent. Far from it.

患有诵读困难症并不意味着智力低下。两者相差甚远。

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