"I've been asked by the media over and over again, why Gary?This is the origin.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

And x0 I'm going to reduce to 0 by choice of my origin being here.

0 等于零,因为我把原点取在这里

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Seymour and Buddy want Franny and Zooey to rest at that origin, undistracted by the manifestations of the creation, and know some kind of consciousness of God in that place.

西莫和巴蒂希望弗兰尼和左伊在开端休息一下，不被造物的现象所影响，并且在那个地方知道上帝的意识。

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By the way, I didn't tell you this but I think you know that I picked my origin to be here and measured y positively to be upwards and I called that 15 meters.

顺便说一下,虽然我没明确指出,但我想你们应该都知道,我把原点取在这里,并规定y的正方向朝上,我设把这里的高度为15米

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