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The things everyone should know about time.
關于時間,每個人都該知道的事。
The past and future are equally real.
過去與未來都是真實的。
This isn't completely accepted, but it should be.
并不是所有人都接受這個觀點,但是大家應該接受。
Intuitively we think that the“now”is real, while the past is fixed and in the books, and the future hasn't yet occurred.
憑直覺,我們認為“現(xiàn)在”是真實的,“過去”只存在于書中,而“未來”尚未發(fā)生。
But physics teaches us something remarkable: every event in the past and future is implicit in the current moment.
但物理學告訴我們一個驚人的事實:過去與未來的每一刻都存在于當下。
This is hard to see in our everyday lives, since we’re nowhere close to knowing everything about the universe at any moment, nor will we ever be—but the equations don't lie.
在我們的日常生活中要理解這一點很難,因為我們無從知曉宇宙中每一刻所發(fā)生的全部事件——但是數(shù)學方程可不會說謊。
As Einstein put it,"It appears therefore more natural to think of physical reality as a four dimensional existence, instead of, as hitherto, the evolution of a three dimensional existence."
就像愛因斯坦說的:“長久以來,我們都把物質(zhì)世界看成是一個不斷發(fā)展的三維存在,但將它看成一個四維存在似乎更為自然一些?!?/p>
【知識點講解】
instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…;
例句:
Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.
別抱怨不好的事,要對好的事心存感恩。
Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.
他沒像平時那樣優(yōu)雅莊重地走著,而是幾乎跑了起來。
Small pickling onions can be used instead of sliced ones.
小塊腌洋蔥可用來替代切片洋蔥。
dimensional adj.尺寸的; <物>量綱的; <數(shù)>因次的; 維的
例句:
I found the characters very two-dimensional, not to say dull.
我覺得那些人物形象即使不說是乏味無聊,至少也是毫無深度。
There are many ways of generating a two - dimensional representation of an object.
有很多制作物體二維圖的方法.
She emerges as a full, three-dimensional character in a way that few horror genre heroines ever do.
她作為一個豐滿而又鮮活的人物形象展現(xiàn)在讀者面前,之前的恐怖體裁作品中,很少有女主人公給人這種感覺。
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