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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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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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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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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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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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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So for the next ten seconds, do not think of a pink elephant.

在接下来的十秒钟里，不要想粉色大象。

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For the next ten seconds, do not think of a pink elephant.

在接下来的十秒钟里不要想粉色大象。

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What happened? -- Most people thought of a pink elephant.

事实如何？多数人都会想粉色大象。

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I give you a spring and an elephant.

我给你弹簧和大象

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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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