Each request to an Arbiter pushes the circuit toward one stable state or the other, just as a hailstone that falls in the Rocky Mountains can roll downhill toward the Pacific or the Gulf.

• 仲裁者所接收到的每个请求，都会把电路推向其中一个稳定状态，就好像落在洛矶山脉上的冰雹不是滚向太平洋就是滚向墨西哥湾。