By being still, you lose momentum, and the level of inertia of our current position increases.

就像如果你处于静止状态，你就会失去动量，你处于静止状态的惯性就会增加。

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Beyond the powerful inertia of maintaining the status quo, there is also fear of retribution from current or future employers and of ruining relationships with current co-workers, she says.

而个中缘由，除了因为惰性安于现状，很多人选择沉默则是因为担心被自己现在或未来的上司报复或是损害同事间的关系。

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The ocean has been playing an irreplaceable role in regulating global meteorological process and local climatological process by means of its immense heat inertia, current, ice cap, treibeis, etc.

海洋的巨大热惯性、洋流、冰盖与流冰等特点以及温度变化，对形成地球上的天气过程和维持全球气候及其变化起着重要作用。

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It may push America into realising that the system has become an absurdity, the result of inertia, drift and bureaucratic empire-building rather than a cool assessment of the government's current needs.

ECONOMIST: The transition