This then is the object of Saussure's attention as a linguist and as a semiotician.

这就是索绪尔所注意到的,作为一个符号学家兼语言学家。

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You add them all up algebraically, keeping track of their sign, and that's the total force.

你再对这些力做代数加法,注意符号,就求出合力了

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Convention, OK, this negative sign is just a pure convention. You just got to use it all the time. If you use an old textbook, written when I was taking thermodynamics, they have the opposite convention, and it's very confusing. But now we've all agreed on this convention, and work is going to be with the negative sign here.

系统对外界做功的符号为负,这就是我们,在本课中的规定，纯粹出于统一符号的需要，有些教科书中，可能会使用相反的符号规定,注意不要混淆了，这门课上,我们将一直使用。

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Remember, you've got to keep track of the sign of acceleration, so if you're picking up speed towards the ground, a is negative, so it will be g plus a, but a is a negative number.

记住,一定要注意加速度的符号,所以当你加速下降的时候,a 是负的,还是 g 加上 a,但是 a 是负数

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