On Thursday,the number two U.S.commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, said the improved cooperation between Prime Minister Maliki and President Barzani has led to reduced tension between the Iraqi Army and the Kurdish Peshmerga force.

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That force is called a tension.

那个力就叫张力

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If your plan is to accelerate a 3 kg mass with an acceleration of 2 meters per second, you better have a rope that can furnish that force and it can take the tension of 6 Newtons.

如果你想用 2 米每秒平方的加速度,去拉一个 3 千克的物体,那么你就需要一根能提供拉力的绳子,并且它能够承受 6 牛的张力

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kg is being pulled by the rope on the right with a force that I'm going to call T, which stands for tension.

千克的物体受到绳子向右的一个拉力,我称它为 T,也就是拉力的意思

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When you say the rope is under tension being pulled from both sides by a certain force, the tension is not 0 just because this T and that T cancel.

当绳子被绷紧,即两端被拉伸时,拉力并不为 0,因为这个 T 和那个 T 相互抵消了

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