So, the authority of the canon that he invokes to defend himself in fact suggests perhaps that he has some doubts? Yes.

因此，那些他用来维护他自己的大炮的权威,表明了他实际上是有怀疑的。

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Then it lands on your foot, because assuming the cannon is at zero height, the cannonball certainly comes out towards the enemy, but has no time of flight.

然后它就会落在你的脚边,因为假设大炮的高度为 0,炮弹笔直地出膛打向敌人,却没有时间飞行

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He had a passion for fireworks, explosives, cannon fire.

对烟火,炸药,大炮情有独钟

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After the French Revolution and Napoleon, and Napoleon makes peace with the church, there is,all of a sudden, a revival with people forming religious confraternities, of people paying to rebuild churches that have been vandalized during the Revolution, where they're melting down church bells to use as cannon and things like that.

在法国大革命和拿破仑时代,与教会达成和解协议之后,突然间,出现了宗教团体的复兴,人们斥资重建那些,在大革命中被肆意毁坏的教堂,当时人们把教堂大钟熔化了,去造大炮之类的东西

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Imagine you got this monster cannon to fire things.

设想你有一门火力强劲的大炮发射炮弹

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But if you're going to have a big old fort, and you're going to have lots of cannon that you hope to use against your craven, reptile enemies that would want to get in your way, you've got to have people to try out the cannon.

如果你想攻占一个大型的旧式堡垒,你必须要有很多大炮,来对付那些缩在城堡中的敌人,还需要很多士兵来操纵这些大炮

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