Our knowledge of the oceans a hundred years ago was confined to the two-dimensional shape of the sea-surface and the hazards of navigation presented by the irregularities in depth of the shallow water close to the land. The open sea was deep and mys

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(670) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第四册

OK, great, we smell vibrations. How? All right? 好吧,我们闻到的是震动。怎么闻到呢? Now when people ask this kind of question, they neglect something, which is that physicists are really clever, unlike biologists. 当人们问这个问

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. 期待失败十有八九就会失败。 Francis Crawford, American writer 弗朗西斯克劳福德,美国作家 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. 从不犯错的人,也

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So how do you suggest we proceed? proceed:进行 那你认为我们应该怎么开始? -Leslie:Your place, we'll order Chinese, you'll rent a movie-- artsy, but accessible-- then light petting, no coitus. order:点菜 rent:租 artsy:艺术的

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第二季

Are you weirded out by wormholes? Flummoxed by your flux capacitor? Strap yourself in for this time-travel primer. 你是不是觉得虫洞很神奇呢?对你不稳定的电容器感到疑惑?那么就来学些关于时空之旅的基本知识吧。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻视频

Well let me give you an example. 让我来给你们一个例子。 Imagine for a moment that, instead of Tim Harford in front of you, there was Hans Rosling presenting his graphs. 你们想象一下,现在如果站在你们面前的不是我,而是

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

I should say that everything is just right so far. In the long term, gravity may turn out to be a little too strong, and one day it may halt the expansion of the universe and bring it collapsing in upon itself, till it crushes itself down into anothe

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

perceive v. 察觉,感知;理解,领悟 解析:perception n.理解,感知,感觉 perceptive a.有理解的 perform v. 履行,执行,完成 解析:performance n.表现 perform the function 执行功能

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Stephen Hawking may belauded as one of the most brilliant people living today, but can he make sense of Zayn Malik's decision to leave British boy band One Direction? Yes, yes he can. 史蒂芬霍金也许能被誉为现今在世最杰出的人之一,

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Although quarks are much too small to have color or taste or any other physical characteristics we would recognize, they became clumped into six categoriesup, down, strange, charm, top, and bottomwhich physicists oddly refer to as their flavors, and

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

What this means in practice is that you can never predict where an electron will be at any given moment. You can only list its probability of being there. In a sense, as Dennis Overbye has put it, an electron doesnt exist until it is observed. Or, pu

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Quantum theory is very worthy of regard, he observed politely, but he really didnt like it. God doesnt play dice, he said. Or at least that is how it is nearly always rendered. The actual quote was: It seems hard to sneak a look at Gods cards. But th

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

It seemed as if there was no end of strangeness. For the first time, as James Trefil has put it, scientists had encountered an area of the universe that our brains just arent wired to understand. Or as Feynman expressed it, things on a small scale be

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

As it was, the Europeans had their hands full trying to understand the strange behavior of the electron. The principal problem they faced was that the electron sometimes behaved like a particle and sometimes like a wave. This impossible duality drove

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

As physicists began to delve into this subatomic realm, they realized that it wasn't merely different from anything we knew, but different from anything ever imagined. Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, Richard Feynman once obs

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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

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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

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

It is the key to unlocking good personal relationships and the spark that can trigger an internet revolution, a new type of social network for all kinds of interests - funzz.com. 它是一把能开启良好人际关系的钥匙,它是能激发一场互

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 英语万花筒

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. December 24th, 1968The astronauts of Apollo VIII become the first human beings to orbit the moon. They read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a TV broadcast on Christmas Eve

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2015年

Creating Your Own Life 创造属于你自己的生活 Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I'm Faith. 这里是Faith主持的Faith轻松电台节目。 Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be

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