And that may be doing something very simple like spinning a plate or doing a forward roll.

这可能是做一些非常简单的事情，比如旋转一个盘子或做一个前滚。

And he was like, hmm, I wonder what the equations would look like that would model how this plate is spinning?

他说，嗯，我想知道模拟这个盘子如何旋转的方程会是什么样子？

I explain it in the sense that I was spinning 100 plates, and I only had the capacity to spin 25 plates.

我的解释是我正在旋转 100 个盘子，而我只能旋转 25 个盘子。

And in his autobiography, he tells a cool story of how one day in the Cornell University cafeteria, he saw some students just like tossing a plate up and down and spinning a plate in the air.

在他的自传中， 他讲述了一个很酷的故事， 有一天在康奈尔大学的食堂，他看到一些学生喜欢上下抛动一个盘子， 并在空中旋转一个盘子。