100年前,当爱因斯坦预测引力波的存在时,他不曾想过有朝一日人类能够真正观测到引力波。 我们来看一段相关的英文报道 In a historic announcement, scientists said they have for the first time directly detected the existence of gravitational waves, which were predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. The new discovery was made by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), a group of more than 1,000 scientists from universities around the United States as well as in 14 other countries. With this discovery, we humans are embarking on a marvelous new quest: the quest to explore the warped side of the universe. 在一份历史性的公告里,科学家们称他们首次直接检测到引力波的存在。100年前,爱因斯坦的广义相对论就预言过引力波的存在。广义相对论是现代物理学的两大支柱之一。 这份新发现来自LIGO科学联盟,这个组织由来自美国及世界其他14个国家大学里的1000多位科学家组成。 有了这项发现,人类开始了一项新的奇特探索:探寻宇宙反常的一面。 ![]() 【讲解】 文中的gravitational waves就是“引力波”的意思,其中gravitational用作形容词,意为“引力的,重力的”,由此衍伸的词语还有:gravitation(引力)、gravitate(被重力吸引)、gravitative(受引力作用的)。 第三段中的动词短语embark on意为“着手;从事”,如:They are embarking on the policy of economic development.(他们正在执行发展经济的政策。) 今天的作业是翻译下面一句话 Signals from gravitational waves are so weak that Einstein himself questioned whether a device sensitive enough could be developed to capture this phenomenon. Edited by 典典
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