This is a baby elephant, so it's really, really big-- except it's a baby elephant, so it's really, really small."

这是只大象宝宝,所以它很大很大,但是它只是个大象宝宝,所以它其实又很小很小

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But there's also elephant polo as well,

这里也有大象马球，

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Then the seesaw will balance, even if you put a potato on one side and an elephant on the other side.

那即使你一边放个土豆,一边放头大象,那跷跷板也会平衡

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So, you take a sentence like -This is a classic line from Groucho Marx: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.

举例来说,这是《格劳乔·马克斯》的经典台词,"我曾在我的睡衣里射杀了一头大象

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He said when an elephant has fleas it is the fleas that do the jumping.

他说当一头大象身上有了跳蚤,是跳蚤而非大象在跳。

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Whatever you do when you're riding an elephant, whatever you wear.

不管你是骑着大象也好还是穿着别的也罢

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So they now ride around on elephants,

运动员骑着大象，

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Do not think of a pink elephant for the next three seconds ? and I am sure no one thought of a pink elephant right?

在接下来的十秒钟里不要想粉色大象,我肯定没有人想一头粉色大象，是吗？

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For example, how do I know that when I pull the spring the first time for the mass, it exerted the same force when I pulled the spring the second time for the elephant?

例如 怎样才能知道,第一次连着物体拉弹簧时,产生的力和,第二次连着大象拉弹簧时产生的力是相等的呢

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Suppose you are being pulled by my favorite animals -- the elephants -- from both sides by equal force.

假设我最喜欢的动物,大象从两边拉你

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With some degree of confidence, I'm working with a reliable spring and then I will get the mass of the elephant.

这时我就对弹簧有信心了,我用的是一个可靠的弹簧,我能测出大象的质量

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But the acceleration it produces on the elephant and on the mass, are in an inverse ratio of their masses.

但这个力使大象和物体产生的加速度,与它们的质量成反比

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Remember, when we hang the elephant in outer space, nothing is going to happen.

记住,如果我们在外太空悬挂一头大象,弹簧是不会有变化的

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Then, I bring the elephant and I pull the spring by the same amount and I find the acceleration of the elephant and the denominator is obviously the mass of the elephant.

然后我再找来大象,用相同的力去拉弹簧,大象就具有了加速度,很明显,分母就是大象的质量

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I'm telling you, "What's the mass of the elephant?"

我要问你,"大象的质量是多少"

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When you say, "Push the elephant," you want to push it in a particular way?

你刚才说,"推那头大象",你想用什么特别的方法来推吗

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Then I give you another object, an elephant.

然后我给你另一个物体,一头大象

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If you knew this was one kilogram, then the acceleration of the elephant, which will be some tiny number, maybe 100th of what this guy did; the mass of the elephant is then 100 kilograms.

如果已知这个物体的质量为 1 千克,那大象的加速度,会是一个比较小的数,可能是物体加速度的 1 / 100,大象的质量就是 100 千克

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We did the comparison with the elephant or something; a is the second derivative of x and for this problem, when F is due to a spring, we know the force is that by studying the spring.

我们也已经把它与大象或其它东西作过比较,a 是 x 的二阶导数,在这个问题中,F 是由弹簧产生的,我们在讨论弹簧问题时已经知道了力的大小

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