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小词详解 | pendulum
pendulum 英 [ˈpendjələm] 美 [ˈpendʒələm]
The 2010s saw the pendulum swinging back.
在2010年代,风水轮流转了。
——《经济学人》Experts now realize that efforts to correct past dietary sins that made heart disease and stroke runaway killers have caused the pendulum to swing too far in the wrong direction.
专家们现在认识到,人们为了避免心脏病和中风而努力纠正既往的饮食误区,结果矫枉过正,走向了另一个错误的方向。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 钟摆
落地钟发乌的钟摆来回摆动。
The tarnished pendulum in the grandfather clock swung back and forth.
教育界又恢复了传统教学法。
In education, the pendulum has swung back to traditional teaching methods.政治形势转而对乐观的自由主义者有利。
The political pendulum has swung in favour of the buoyant liberals.
妥协可以产生更好的解决方案,这些解决方案是可持续的,且不受政党轮替的影响。
A compromise produces better solutions that are sustainable and not subject to every swing of the pendulum.
The pendulum swings backwards and forwards. The circle is ever travelled anew.
钟摆摆过来又荡过去,这一旅程永远反复循环。
amplitude: the maximum extent of a vibration or oscillation, measured from the position of equilibrium trajectory: the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces equilibrium: a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced