Inertia is the resistance of objects to efforts to change their state of motion.

惯性是物体对改变其运动状态的力的阻碍。

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With the efforts of China's government and its people, the rate of forest coverage in China has reached 96%, compared to 5% forty years ago, according to a recent report from the State Forestry and Grassland Administration.

据国家林业和草原局最近的一份报告显示，通过中国政府和人民的努力，与四十年前的5%相比，中国的森林覆盖率已经达到96%。

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Collaborative efforts at the state and local level, along with partnerships with private and non-profit groups, have reduced homelessness in places like Chicago by as much as 12%.

通过州之间和地方之间，以及与私营性或非营利性团体的共同努力，许多地方的无家可归的人数已经减少，例如像芝加哥降低了12%。

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On a separate issue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week criticized international efforts by Islamic countries to ban anti-religious speech.

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State efforts at online sales tax collection have made it much, much easier to run my small business.

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ObamaCare makes federal and state efforts to cap rates even more complicated because the law mandates all sorts of costly benefits.

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It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.

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