I'm not at all sure there's anything more to be said about that passage, which I think lays it to rest.

我不确定这篇文章是不是,还要更多的讲解，就这样的吧。

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It may not be at rest to begin with.

它刚开始不一定静止

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and I asked you to give yourself a percentage rating relative to the rest of the class, then if everybody was accurate, or at least not systematically biased, the number should add up to 50%.

我要你相比于其他同学的表现，给自己一个百分数，如果大家都准确地评价自己，或者说大家都不偏心于自己，那么平均百分数应该是50%的。

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What makes the law surprising is that if I only gave you half the law, namely every body will remain at rest if it's not acted upon by a force, you will say, "That's fine. I accept that, because here's something, you leave it there, it doesn't move.

这条定律妙就妙在,如果只看定律的前半段,即,如果物体不受外力作用,将保持静止状态,你肯定会觉得,"这没什么,我能理解,因为你把一个物体放在那里,自己肯定不会动

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When I was not accelerating and everything was at rest, ma was 0, w was mg, and w was the reading on the needle.

当我还没有加速,一切静止的时候,ma 是 0,w 就等于 mg,w 就是指针的读数

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