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Undaunted—well, perhaps mildly daunted—Planck turned to other matters.
普朗克沒有泄氣——哎呀，也許稍稍有點(diǎn)膽怯，開始把注意力轉(zhuǎn)向別的問題。
Planck was often unlucky in life.
生活中，普朗克屢遭不幸，
His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War.
1909年，他的第一任愛妻早逝，兩個兒子中的最小的一個死于一戰(zhàn)。
He also had twin daughters whom he adored.
他寵愛的雙胞胎女兒們，
One died giving birth.
其中一個死于分娩，
The surviving twin went to look after the baby and fell in love with her sister's husband. They married and two years later she died in childbirth.
另一個在照顧她姐姐遺腹時，愛上了她的姐夫并喜結(jié)連理，兩年后，普朗克唯一的一個女兒竟也死于分娩。
In 1944, when Planck was eighty-five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he lost everything-papers, diaries, a lifetime of accumulations.
1944年，那時普朗克已經(jīng)85歲了，聯(lián)軍的一枚炸彈擊中了他的房子，為此，他失去了一切——論文、日記和畢生積蓄。
The following year his surviving son was caught in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and executed.
翌年，他僅存的兒子在一次密謀刺殺希特勒的行動中被抓并被殺害。
We shall turn to these ourselves in a moment, but first we must make a slight (but relevant!) detour to Cleveland, Ohio,
這方面的事，我們等一會兒再說，先稍稍地（而又恰當(dāng)?shù)兀Q個方向，前往俄亥俄州的克利夫蘭，
and an institution then known as the Case School of Applied Science.
去一家當(dāng)時被稱為凱斯實(shí)用科學(xué)學(xué)校的機(jī)構(gòu)。
There, in the 1880s, a physicist of early middle years named Albert Michelson, assisted by his friend the chemist Edward Morley,
19世紀(jì)80年代，那里有一位剛到中年的物理學(xué)家，名叫阿爾伯特·邁克爾遜。他在他的朋友化學(xué)家愛德華·莫雷的協(xié)助之下，
embarked on a series of experiments that produced curious and disturbing results that would have great ramifications for much of what followed.
進(jìn)行了一系列試驗(yàn)。那些試驗(yàn)得出了很有意思而又令人吃驚的結(jié)果，將對以后的許多事情產(chǎn)生重大的影響。
