有一种很强大的初动力——比恒定状态时的力要大五倍。

There was a huge initial force—five times larger than the steady state force.

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在20世纪初，很少有东西比科学知识的承诺更吸引人的了。

In the early 20th century, few things were more appealing than the promise of scientific knowledge.

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上世纪60年代初，让-克洛德·基利进入法国国家滑雪队时，他打算比任何人都更加努力，成为最好的滑雪队队员。

When Jean-Claude Killy made the French national ski team in the early 1960s, he was prepared to work harder than anyone else to be the best.

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Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

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