China is playing a critical role in multiple dimensions.

“中国在很多领域都发挥着重要作用。

That this may, across the multiple dimensions of the system's vision of the world, be the opposite of Marlon Brando seems reasonable enough.

从系统对世界的多个维度来看，这可能与马龙·白兰度相反，这似乎很合理。

However, he wonders, given the potentiality of multiple dimensions beyond our limited experience, whether this absence of observable ultimate meaning really implies that we should assume it doesn't exist.

但是他想，如果有超出我们有限经验的多个维度，最终意义的不可见就能说明它是不存在的吗？

But before getting into that, I need to spend some time talking about linear transformations from multiple dimensions to one dimension, which is just the number line.

但在这之前 我需要花点时间讨论从多维到一维的线性变换 也就是数轴。

This is why there’s more attention paid in sociology to intersectionality, or the analysis of the interplay of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and other identities, which often results in multiple dimensions of disadvantage.

这就是为什么社会学更加关注交叉性，或者分析种族、阶级、性别、性取向和其他身份的相互作用，这往往会导致多方面的劣势。