他关了与法院广场相切的那条街上的办公室门，走过了两条街回到家。

He closed his office on the street tangential to the courthouse square and walked the two blocks to his house..

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速度向量总是与曲线相切的。

So, the velocity vector is going to be always tangent to the curve.

youdao

因为一直到现在我们都是在看图像，而且知道它们，是相切的，但是为什么在一般情况下它们都相切？

Because so far I have shown you pictures and have said see they are tangent.But why is it that they have to be tangent in general?

youdao

That limit will be some arrow we can call the velocity at the time and it will always be tangent to the curve.

那个极限也就是一个矢量,我们称之为瞬时速度,并且它总是和轨迹相切的

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So the velocity at any part of the curve is tangent to the curve at that point.

曲线上任意一点的速度,都在该点和曲线相切

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That means that you want to pick, ultimately, a point on this-- this line is tangent to the efficient portfolio frontier with all the other assets in it.

那意味着你会最终会在这上面选一个点-,这条直线是与有效边界相切的,后者包含了所有的资产组合。

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