夏洛的网 第176期:叔叔(2)

Let's let the children go off by themselves, suggested Mr. Arable. 还是让我们先把孩子们打发走吧，阿拉布尔先生建议， The Fair only comes once a year. 集市每年只来一次。 Mr. Arable gave Fern two quarters and two dimes. 阿

夏洛的网 第177期:叔叔(3)

While Wilbur was being unloaded and taken out of his crate and into his new pigpen, 当威尔伯给搬下车，从板条箱里出来，放进它的新猪圈时， crowds gathered to watch. 一群又一群人围上来看。 They stared at the sign ZUC

夏洛的网 第178期:叔叔(4)

As soon as the people were gone, Charlotte spoke to Wilbur. 人们一走，夏洛就对威尔伯说： It's a good thing you can't see what I see, she said. 我在上面看到的东西是你在下面看不到的。它说。 What do you see? asked Wil

夏洛的网 第179期:叔叔(5)

He claims he's a spring pig, reported Charlotte, 它说它是只春猪，夏洛禀报说， and perhaps he is. One thing is certain, he has a most unattractive personality. 也许是的。有一件事可以肯定，它太不讨人喜欢了。 He is t

夏洛的网 第180期:叔叔(6)

All morning people wandered past Wilbur's pen. 整个上午人们走过威尔伯的猪圈。 Dozens and dozens of strangers stopped to stare at him 几十几百个陌生人停下来看它， and to admire his silky white coat, 赞美它一身丝一样细

夏洛的网 第172期:上集市去(10)

Wilbur heard these words and his heart almost stopped. 威尔伯一听这话，心脏都几乎停止跳动了。 I think I'm going to faint, he whispered to the old sheep, who was watching. 我想我要昏倒了，它悄悄地对站在旁边看着的老

夏洛的网 第201期:胜利时刻(7)

You asked for water, said Lurvy meekly. 都是你叫我拿水来的。勒维逆来顺受地说。 I didn't ask for a shower bath, said Mr. Zuckerman. 我可没叫你给我冲凉。朱克曼先生说。 The crowd roared with laughter. 周围的人群哈

万物简史 第175期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(18)

Howeverand heres the thingpeople on the train would have no sense of these distortions. 然而问题就在这里车上的人并不觉得自己变了形。 To them, everything on the train would seem quite normal. 在他们看来，车上的一切似乎

万物简史 第183期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(26)

We now know that Cepheids throb as they do because they are elderly stars that have moved past their main sequence phase, in the parlance of astronomers, and become red giants. The chemistry of red giants is a little weighty for our purposes here (it

万物简史 第182期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(25)

Hubble's luck was to come along soon after an ingenious woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt had figured out a way to do so. Leavitt worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a computer, as they were known. Computers spent their lives studying photo

万物简史 第181期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(24)

In 1919, now aged thirty, he moved to California and took up a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles. Swiftly, and more than a little unexpectedly, he became the most outstanding astronomer of the twentieth century. 1919年，他已

万物简史 第180期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(23)

This was more than a little odd, for Hubbles life was filled from an early age with a level of distinction that was at times almost ludicrously golden. At a single high school track meet in 1906, he won the pole vault, shot put, discus, hammer throw,

万物简史 第179期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(22)

Slipher was the first to notice this effect with light and to realize its potential importance for understanding the motions of the cosmos. Unfortunately no one much noticed him. The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity than

万物简史 第178期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(21)

Coincidentally, at about the time that Einstein was affixing a cosmological constant to his theory, at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, an astronomer with the cheerily intergalactic name of Vesto Slipher (who was in fact from Indiana) was taking sp

万物简史 第177期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(20)

Every object that has mass creates a little depression in the fabric of the cosmos. 凡有质量的物体在宇宙的底垫上都能造成一个小小的凹坑。 Thus the universe, as Dennis Overbye has put it, is the ultimate sagging mattress. 因此

万物简史 第176期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(19)

The most challenging and nonintuitive of all the concepts in the general theory of relativity is the idea that time is part of space. Our instinct is to regard time as eternal, absolute, immutablenothing can disturb its steady tick. In fact, accordin

万物简史 第174期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(17)

When a journalist asked the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington 有一位记者问英国天文学家阿瑟爱丁顿， if it was true that he was one of only three people in the world who could understand Einsteins relativity theories, 他是不是

万物简史 第173期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(16)

With his pipe, genially self-effacing manner, and electrified hair, Einstein was too splendid a figure to remain permanently obscure, 爱因斯坦常手拿烟斗，和蔼可亲，不爱露面，一头乱发，真是个非凡人物。这样的人物不可

万物简史 第172期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(15)

In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity. 1907年，反正有时候书上是这么写的，有个工人从房顶上掉了下来，爱因斯坦就开始考虑引力的问

万物简史 第171期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(14)

Physicists as a rule are not overattentive to the pronouncements of Swiss patent office clerks, and so, despite the abundance of useful tidings, Einsteins papers attracted little notice. Having just solved several of the deepest mysteries of the univ