So we don't know how much force it took to overcome static friction.

这里不知道 花了多大力克服静摩擦但我们知道。

Something else to consider is that overcoming friction takes energy, so you're losing energy to friction.

还有一点要考虑的是， 克服摩擦需要能量，所以你会因为摩擦而失去能量。

He had as much as he could do to overcome domestic friction, and felt no wish to alienate foreign powers.

他力所能及地克服国内摩擦， 不想疏远外国势力。

And, in fact, did you know that about one-third of the fuel that you put into your internal combustion engine vehicle will be spent overcoming friction?

而且，事实上，您是否知道，您投入内燃机车辆的燃料中，约有三分之一将用于克服摩擦？

Only the most energetic, the most highly fitted, and the most favored have overcome the friction or the viscosity of inertia, and these were compelled to waste three-fourths of their energy in doing it.

只有最精力充沛、最合适、最受青睐的人才能克服惯性的摩擦或粘性，而这些人被迫为此浪费了四分之三的精力。

If cities and regional confederacies, held together mostly by consensus and cooperation existed thousands of years ago, who's to stop us creating them again today with technologies that allow us to overcome the friction of distance and numbers?

如果几千年前存在主要通过共识与合作维系在一起的城市和地区联盟，那么今天谁能阻止我们利用能够克服距离和人数摩擦的技术再次创建它们？