SSS 2011-05-06
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(五)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
Albert Einstein wins again. A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity. The corroboration 1 appears online in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Einstein's theory recognizes that massive objects warp 2 the very fabric 3 of space and time. If the theory is true, then the Earth should stretch the spacetime in which it sits, like a bowling 4 ball would deform 5 a trampoline. What's more, the Earth's rotation 6 should also produce a drag on local spacetime, like a marble spinning in molasses would pull the goop around it.
To measure these minor 7 deformations 8, scientists sent four gyroscopes into space in a mission called Gravity Probe B. And they found that after circling the Earth some 5,000 times the gyroscopes' angle of spin had changed, ever-so-slightly, in response to the Earth's gravitational pull. Which proves that the old man was right.
Gravity Probe B was first conceived in 1959. And the technology created to make the mission fly has been applied 9 in work on the big bang theory—the real theory, not the TV show—and in GPS, which Einstein would have loved, because even a genius can get lost on the highway.
- Without corroboration from forensic tests,it will be difficult to prove that the suspect is guilty. 没有法医化验的确证就很难证明嫌疑犯有罪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Definitely more independent corroboration is necessary. 有必要更明确地进一步证实。 来自辞典例句
- The damp wood began to warp.这块潮湿的木材有些翘曲了。
- A steel girder may warp in a fire.钢梁遇火会变弯。
- The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
- I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
- Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
- Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动，高尔夫还是保龄球？
- Shoes that are too tight deform the feet.(穿)太紧的鞋子会使脚变形。
- Ice crystals begin to deform measurably.冰晶就产生某种程度的变形了。
- Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
- The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。
- The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
- I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
- It would make no difference if the bar deformations were totally inelastic. 如果杆的变形完全是非弹性变形时这也就没有什么区别了。
- Such readings can reveal longer-period deformations in the earth. 这种读数可以反映地球长周期的形变。