billiard ball

基本解释

Think about the motion of billiard balls, one billiard ball bashing into another.
想象一下台球的运动，一个球对另一个球的撞击。
The first billiard ball is not causing the second one to move rather the contact of two billiard balls is the occasion for God to make the second one move.
与其说是第一个台球对第二个并没有造成移动,还不如说这两球接触以后,第二个球的移动是上帝的偶然行为。
So, I am actually able to put this into scientific formulae and work out, when one billiard ball moves towards another, how in the past that collision would have happened?
这样我便能将这些原理转化为科学公式并且运用于计算，当一个台球向另一个台球移动时，两球发生了碰撞之后究竟会发生什么呢？

And what humanistic psychology said was that we are much more than a billiard ball being knocked around.
而人本主义心理学认为,我们不只是被击打的台球。
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Much more than biological instincts, much more than neurosis, much more than the person who exists in a Newtonian reality like a billiard ball.
不仅仅是生理本能，不仅仅是神经症，不仅仅是牛顿学说世界里的台球。
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Behaviorism looks at the human entity, at the person as basically a collection of behaviors as a box, like a billiard ball knocked around by reinforcements, by punishment, by reward.
行为主义认为人的主体性，认为人是一个行为集合，就像一只被击打而四处滚动的台球，被增强，奖惩驱动。
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Neutrons ejected from a watery surface move much more slowly than those from a rocky one, because the hydrogen nuclei in water are light enough for an exiting neutron to knock around—much like one billiard ball hitting another—a process that slows the neutron down.
ECONOMIST: Divining water