Heat 热量 Heat is one kind of energy. 热量是一种能量。 It makes things warm and hot. 它能使物体温暖火热。 You can't see heat. 你看不见热量。 But when you stand next to a hot oven, you can feel warm. 但当你站在一个热的

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第2册

The whole time he was talking to me, 整个谈话期间 I sat there smiling and nodding like a numb idiot, 我麻木的像个傻子。 with my arms crossed over my chest, 双手交叉在胸前, while nothing, nothing, nothing came out of my throat.

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36 宇宙空间文摘 DATE=6-13-01 TITLE=EXPLORATIONS #1956 - Space Digest BYLINE=Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program E

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Books and Arts; Book Review; Fundamental physics; Big bang; 文艺;书评;基础物理学;宇宙大爆炸; Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard. Now comes a brave attempt to inject mathematics into an otherwise fashionable subject 科

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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

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What Michelson and Morley did, without actually intending to, was undermine a longstanding belief in something called the luminiferous ether, 迈克尔逊和莫雷所做的实际上是在无意之中所做的破坏了长期以来人们对一种所谓光

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Michelson talked Alexander Graham Bell, newly enriched inventor of the telephone, into providing the funds to build an ingenious and sensitive instrument of Michelson's own devising called an interferometer, which could measure the velocity of light

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The term supernova was coined in the 1930s by a memorably odd astrophysicist named Fritz Zwicky. Born in Bulgaria and raised in Switzerland, Zwicky came to the California Institute of Technology in the 1920s and there at once distinguished himself by

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For a long time the Big Bang theory had one gaping hole that troubled a lot of peoplenamely that it couldn't begin to explain how we got here. Although 98 percent of all the matter that exists was created with the Big Bang, that matter consisted excl

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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

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101. confine vt.限制, 禁闭 n.界限, 边界 102. frame n.结构, 体格帧,画面,框架 vt.构成, 设计, 制定, 使适合, 陷害 vi.英方有成功希望 n.帧,画面,框架 103. geophysical

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科学家发现宇宙膨胀的证据 WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. astronomers announced Monday they have captured the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time described as the first tremors of the Big Bang in which the u

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物理学家兼冲浪运动员的加勒特 里斯展示了一个全新的富有争议的宇宙模型。这个模型可能解决了所有终极问题。这可能是大家能见到的最漂亮的关于基本粒子和力学的8维模型。

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Let's begin by winding the timeline back 13.7 billion years, to the beginning of time. 让我们把时间往回拨到137亿年前,也就是时间的开始。 Around us, there's nothing. There's not even time or space. 四周是什么也没有,根本

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Astrophysics 天体物理 Dust to dust 尘归尘,土归土 A dramatic recent discovery in physics is looking rather dodgy 近期,物理学中的一项戏剧性发现看上出非常模糊 IN MARCH Chao-Lin Kuo, an astrophysicist at Stanford Univer

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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

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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,

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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

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Are we alone in the universe? Its a question astronomers have pondered ever since we discovered Earth was not the only planet in the cosmos.我们是宇宙中唯一的智慧生命吗?自发现地球并非宇宙中唯一的星球以来,这个问题就

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Part V Life Itself 第五部 生命本身 The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, 我越是审视宇宙,越是研究其构造上的具体细节, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have

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