billiard ball

基本解釋

Think about the motion of billiard balls, one billiard ball bashing into another.
想象一下臺球的運動，一個球對另一個球的撞擊。
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.
與其說是第一個臺球對第二個并沒有造成移動,還不如說這兩球接觸以后,第二個球的移動是上帝的偶然行為。
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?
這樣我便能將這些原理轉化為科學公式并且運用于計算，當一個臺球向另一個臺球移動時，兩球發(fā)生了碰撞之后究竟會發(fā)生什么呢？

And what humanistic psychology said was that we are much more than a billiard ball being knocked around.
而人本主義心理學認為,我們不只是被擊打的臺球。
哈佛公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選
Much more than biological instincts, much more than neurosis, much more than the person who exists in a Newtonian reality like a billiard ball.
不僅僅是生理本能，不僅僅是神經癥，不僅僅是牛頓學說世界里的臺球。
哈佛公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選
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.
行為主義認為人的主體性，認為人是一個行為集合，就像一只被擊打而四處滾動的臺球，被增強，獎懲驅動。
哈佛公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選

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