It wasn't that bad really, it was kind of interesting, I learnt a lot," to justify what they did.

其实这份工作没那么无聊，挺有趣的，我学到了很多“他们会这样为不合理的行为找理由。

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You would make an excuse and say the detector isn't working.

你可以找个理由,说探测器坏了。

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And finally, what you do makes sense.

最后，为自己的行为找理由。

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It looks like a tautology because you're never able to show me something that moves forever at a constant velocity, because every time you don't find such a thing, I give an excuse, namely, a force is acting.

这听上去像个死循环,因为你不可能,找到永远匀速运动下去的物体,因为每当你找不到这样的物体时,我就会给出一个理由,也就是,有力作用在上面

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