神奇的隐身衣即将成为现实
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月
AS IT IS 2015-09-22 Magical Invisibility Cloak Soon to Be Real 神奇的隐身衣即将成为现实
All you Harry 1 Potter fans out there have reason to celebrate!
Scientists say they are close to inventing a real invisibility cloth.
Harry Potter is a popular book and movie series about a boy who fights evil and wins. His success is partly because of magic tools like an invisibility cloth. When he hides underneath 2 of it, you can’t see him. He becomes invisible.
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley say they have invented a cloth that hides shapes. We see shapes when light hits an object. The light then scatters 4 and bounces around to reveal a shape.
The cloak is made with millions of tiny mirrors of gold. The mirrors are so small they are about the size of a human hair. The mirrors stop the light from scattering 5 and bouncing.
The military would be very interested in this kind of technology, scientists say, as would cosmetic 6 and car makers 7, too.
Xiang Zhang is a materials scientist at the university.
“People can make a sizeable belly 8 now become a six-pack, you know, scars on the face and things (that) can disappear.”
So far, the scientists have been hiding objects so small they cannot be seen with common sight. But they are sure they can adapt the technology for larger objects in the next five to seven years.
Words in This Story
scatter 3 – v. to separate and go in different directions
bounce – v. to move in one direction, hit a surface and then quickly move in a different and usually opposite direction
six-pack – n. a group of strong and well-shaped muscles that can be seen on a person's stomach
- Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
- Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
- Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
- She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。
- You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
- Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。
- He scatters money about as if he were rich. 他四处挥霍，好像很有钱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters its seeds broadcast. 真理引起了反对它自己的狂风骤雨，那场风雨吹散了真理的广播的种子。 来自辞典例句
- The child felle into a rage and began scattering its toys about. 这孩子突发狂怒，把玩具扔得满地都是。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The farmers are scattering seed. 农夫们在播种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
- Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品，所以请尽情微笑吧！
- The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
- The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》