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Who is you to tell somebody who they can't have sex with, 是谁告诉你他们不能和某人做爱, who they can't be with? 不能和别人处对象? They ain't got that power. 他们没权力这么做。 Nobody has that power to say, you can't m
And in fact, the gay rights movement asks us to support justice and equality from a space of love. 事实上,婚姻平权运动需要我们,以爱之名支持公平正义。 That may be the biggest, greatest gift that the movement has given us. 这
Unit 118:Mix'em up 第118单元:混合做多种运动 People enjoy exercising more when they engage in more than one activity,says Dr.Brownell. 布洛耐尔博上说:人们做的运动不只一项时会比较喜欢运动。 A variety of exercises
Einstein was born in Ulm, in southern Germany, in 1879, but grew up in Munich. Little in his early life suggested the greatness to come. Famously he didnt learn to speak until he was three. In the 1890s, his fathers electrical business failing, the f
In 1793, the Reign of Terror, already intense, ratcheted up to a higher gear. In October Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine. The following month, as Lavoisier and his wife were making tardy plans to slip away to Scotland, Lavoisier was arres
Someone of insight was needed to thrust chemistry into the modern age, and it was the French who provided him. His name was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. Born in 1743, Lavoisier was a member of the minor nobility (his father had purchased a title for th
The members met twice a month from November until June, when virtually all of them went off to spend the summer doing fieldwork. These weren't people with a pecuniary interest in minerals, you understand, or even academics for the most part, but simp
Luckily Hutton had a Boswell in the form of John Playfair, a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a close friend, who could not only write silken prose butthanks to many years at Hutton's elbowactually understood what Hutton wa
The Big Bang theory isn't about the bang itself but about what happened after the bang. Not long after, mind you. By doing a lot of math and watching carefully what goes on in particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10-43secon
I mention all this to explain why on a gray day in February I went to the Natural History Museum in London to meet a cheerful, vaguely rumpled, very likeable paleontologist named Richard Fortey. 我提这一切,是为了解释为什么我在阴沉沉
In 1958, they did a deal with the U.S. Navy, which gave the Navy ownership but left them in control. 1958年,他们与美国海军达成一桩交易,把探海艇的所有权交给海军,但他们仍保留使用权。 Now flush with funds, the P
18 The Bounding Main 第十八章 浩瀚的海洋 Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, 请你想像一下,你能不能生活在一个由一氧化二氢主宰的世界里。 a compound that has no taste or smell and is so
There are 320 million cubic miles of water on Earth and that is all we're ever going to get. 地球上有13亿立方公里水,这是全部。 The system is closed: practically speaking, nothing can be added or subtracted. 系统已经关闭,说得明
Air is deceptive stuff. Even at sea level, we tend to think of the air as being ethereal and all but weightless. In fact, it has plenty of bulk, and that bulk often exerts itself. As a marine scientist named Wyville Thomson wrote more than a century
Certainly there is no shortage of energy in the world above our heads. One thunderstorm, it has been calculated, can contain an amount of energy equivalent to four days' use of electricity for the whole United States. In the right conditions, storm c
Voorhies sent samples to colleagues all over the western United States asking if there was anything about it that they recognized. 沃里斯把样品寄给美国西部各地的同事们,问他们是否认得出这是什么东西。 Several months l
By the early 1900s, it had often become impossible to know whether an asteroid that popped into view was new 到20世纪初,往往分不清哪颗小行星是刚刚出现的, or simply one that had been noted earlier and then lost track of. 哪颗小
Part IV Dangerous Planet 第四部 处境危险的行星 The history of any one part of the Earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.British geologist Derek V. Ager 地球的任何一部分历史
Elsewhere, however, the new theory drew steady if cautious support. In 1950, a vote at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science showed that about half of those present now embraced the idea of continental drift. (H
Wegener developed the theory that the world's continents had once come together in a single landmass he called Pangaea, where flora and fauna had been able to mingle, before the continents had split apart and floated off to their present positions. A