inertia
inertia 英 [ɪˈnɜ:ʃə] 美 [ɪˈnɜrʃə]
n. 惯性；惰性，迟钝
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. 惯性；惰性，迟钝
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1. I can't seem to throw off this feeling of inertia.
我好像无法摆脱这种无力的感觉。
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2. the forces of institutional inertia in the school system
学校体制内的惰性
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3. inertia force
惯性力
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4. We had a feeling of inertia in the afternoon.
下午我们感觉很懒。
- 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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