And, in terms of direction, it will be normal to the surface.

对于方向，则是曲面的法方向。

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You've got to be very used to the notion of taking a vector in some oblique direction and writing it in terms of i and j.

你们应该已经很熟悉,倾斜的坐标系中矢量的概念,和用 i 和 j 来表示该矢量的方法

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