The Focault pendulum is one example where you can see that the Earth is rotating around its own axis.

傅科摆就是一个例子,通过观察它,你会发现地球在自转

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Despite that fact,I argue that we need to shift the pendulum and do more "positive research",or in other words, research that focuses on what works.

尽管如此，我还是认为我们该改变那比率,做更多“积极研究“，或者说，集中研究可行的事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Overdoing this class is shifting the pendulum.

我们要做的就像是改变钟摆幅度。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The reason why we need positive psychology is to shift the pendulum from the 21:1 ratio that we have today: for every one study on depression or anxiety, we have 21 studies on-- sorry, for one study on happiness or wellbeing, we have 21 studies on depression and anxiety.

我们需要积极心理学是为了改变,现在的21比1这个比率：,每有一项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究，就有21项，对不起，应该是每有一项关于快乐或幸福的研究，就有21项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究。

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