And just in case the assumptions are not true, we're just going to stop dead in our tracks.

验证下假设条件，万一传递的参数。

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He then screeched to a dead stop in 1.4 seconds, sustaining a force equivalent to 46.2 times gravity.

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In about six and a half minutes the spacecraft had to go from more than 10, 000 miles an hour to a dead stop.

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Why not take this literally--or pretend to--and stop group tastings dead to grill the winery owner on the mineral composition of the vineyards represented in every wine?

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