If I wanted to reverse an object's momentum, I first had to slow it down before I could get it moving in the opposite direction.

例如当我想让一个物体像相反的方向移动，我首先需要让它慢下来，然后在推动它向另外一个方向移动。

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To check that this was not so, the experiment was repeat six months later when the Earth was travelling in the reverse direction on the opposite side of its orbit.

证明那个是巧合的时候却发现不是这样的，在六个月后重复了这个实验，此时地球正在轨道的另一边以相反的方向运行。

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Even when a triangle is violated there is a tendency for false breaks and prices reverse and begin to trend in the opposite direction.

即使突破了三角形型态此仍有假突破以及价格反转的倾向，并开始往相反的方向移动。

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Even with touch sensitivity turned off, clicking left or right with a second thumb resting (but not pressing) on the opposite side of the Pad resulted in scrolling the reverse direction.

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And, one day, if the Court were to reverse that decision, that, too, would be judicial activism -- albeit in the opposite direction.

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