inertia
inertia 英 [ɪˈnɜ:ʃə] 美 [ɪˈnɜrʃə]
n. [力] 惯性；惰性，迟钝；不活动
名词复数:inertias
- Inertia is resistance to change. You hate looking at people's feet and yet you stay in your job as a shoe salesman year after year. Why? Inertia.
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- n. [力] 惯性；惰性，迟钝；不活动
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1. Galileo and Descartes replaced that with the idea of inertia.
伽利略和笛卡尔用惯性的概念将其取代。
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2. But the internal inertia against doing so appears too great at this time.
但反对这种作为的内部惰性这次似乎显得太过强大了。
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3. The effect of cultural inertia over time is that we as a community are much better at adding to our body of knowledge than we are at updating it.
文化惰性随时间推移的结果在于，作为一个社区，与更新我们的知识体系相比，我们更擅长于向我们的知识体系添加新内容。
- inertia (n.) 1713, "that property of matter by virtue of which it retains its state of rest or of uniform rectilinear motion so long as no foreign cause changes that state" [Century Dictionary], introduced as a term in physics 17c. by German astronomer and physician Johann Kepler (1571-1630) as a special sense of Latin inertia "unskillfulness, ignorance; inactivity, idleness," from iners (genitive inertis) "unskilled; inactive" (see inert). Also sometimes vis inertia "force of inertia." Used in 1687 by Newton, writing in Modern Latin. The classical Latin sense of "apathy, passiveness, inactivity" is attested in English from 1822.
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