宇宙之钥

Einstein had lurked deep into the fabrique of the universe and seen its inner workings.

爱因斯坦深入研究宇宙结构后 看出其深奥的作用原理

Ten years after he explained the fixed speed of light.

在他解释光速恒定10年后

He discovered that the distortion of space and time.

他又发现时空扭曲

produces gravity,a fundamental force of nature.

会产生重力 这一自然界的基本作用力

His work brought us much closer.

他的研究让人类更接近

to discovering the secret key to the cosmos.

解开宇宙奥秘的关键

But not even Einstein was prepared for what happen next.

但接着发生的事却出乎爱因斯坦的意料

Although Einstein had begun to reveal the universe's hidden clockwork,

尽管爱因斯坦已开始解开 隐藏的宇宙机制

He still couldn't quite yet see how it operated.

却仍不完全了解其作用原理

His theories drawn the nature of light.

他推论光的本质是

as a super fast electromagnetic wave racing through the emptiness of space.

超快的电磁波 在无垠的宇宙间快速行进

But they revealed nothing about what these waves really are.

却无法揭露这些电磁波的本质

That challenge was taken up in 1919 by a German theorist,

这项挑战在1919年间 由一名德国理论家接下

named Theodore Kaluza,a mathematician with a passion for purity and elegance.

他名叫卡鲁扎 这名追求纯净与优雅的数学家

The next great scientist in my pantheon of heroes.

是我英雄榜上的下一名伟大科学家

Kaluza was a man who took all forms of theory very seriously indeed.

卡鲁扎非常认真地钻研各种形式的理论

It's said that he taught himself to swim.

据说他自学 学会了游泳

solely by reading a book on this subject.

只读了一本介绍游泳的书

重点讲解

1、universe

宇宙

Einstein's equations showed the Universe to be expanding.

爱因斯坦的方程式表明宇宙正在膨胀。

Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.

早期的天文学家认为我们的星球是宇宙的中心。

经验领域

Good writers suck in what they see of the world, recreating their own universe on the page.

优秀的作家从他们眼中的世界汲取体验，然后在纸上重塑自己的天地。

They marked out the boundaries of our visual universe.

他们标出了我们视觉经验领域的界限。

全天下，宇宙万物中（最）

According to my friends I am the coolest, thinnest, cleverest, funniest journalist in the universe.

我的朋友说我是全天下最酷、最瘦、最聪明、最幽默的记者。

2、operate

经营；管理；运营；运作

Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.

到他1986年去世前，格林伍德一直拥有并管理着一片面积广阔的梨园。

allowing commercial banks to operate in the country.

允许商业银行在该国开展业务

工作；起作用

Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.

吊灯和壁灯可单独开关。

How do accounting records operate?

账目是如何记录的？

操作，控制，使用（机器、设备等）；（机器等）运转，运行

A massive rock fall trapped the men as they operated a tunnelling machine.

这些工人在操作隧道挖掘机时被大量的落石困住了。

The number of fax machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.

现在全球使用的传真机数量已达到了1,000万台。

（在某一地区）作战，执行任务

Up to ten thousand Zimbabwean soldiers are operating in Mozambique.

多达1万名津巴布韦士兵正在莫桑比克执行任务。

This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.

这使得奥地利军队可以对法军作战。