This principle was famously demonstrated by Galileo Galilei some 400 years ago when he simultaneously dropped cannon and musket balls, and balls made of gold, silver and wood, from the Tower of Pisa.

这一法则是在大约400年前，由伽利略•伽利雷那个著名的比萨斜塔实验所证明的，当时他在塔顶同时释放球型炮弹和毛瑟枪子弹，以及由金、银、木头制成的小球。

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That became musca in Latin, then the diminutive muschetta and ultimately—by now a weapon, not a projectile—musket.

这个词（mice）在拉丁语中写作“musca（苍蝇）”，加上后缀又变成“muschetta”，最后演变成“musket”——滑膛枪，一种兵器而不是弹射装置。

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Admiral Nelson's encounter as a plucky 14-year-old midshipman fighting only with the butt of his musket is surely a myth, but others are true.

纳尔逊海军上将时为一名勇敢的14岁的少尉候补官，他仅用滑膛枪托与遭遇的北极熊搏斗的故事可以肯定是个神话，不过其他的故事倒是真的。

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Other important firearms include the musket, the shotgun, the revolver, the repeating carbine and the machine gun.

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The Wellesley-based musket in question is in the form of a Facebook Deactivation Agreement (FDA).

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But, as befitting a country whose birth came through the barrel of a musket, I accept that the United States has a gun culture, and always will.

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