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Which came first the chicken or the egg?

是先有鸡还是先有蛋

Did the universe have a beginning.

宇宙有起源吗

and if so, what happened before then?

如果有 那么在宇宙之前又是什么

Where did the universe come from...and where is it going?

宇宙从何而来 它又将去向何方

Luck. Luck. Well...we have been very lucky

运气好 我们都很幸运

I mean, my family and Stephen and everybody.

我是说 我的家人 史蒂芬和所有人

You have your disasters, but the point is that we have survived.

曾经多灾多难 关键是我们生存下来了

Everybody has disasters, and yet some people disappear.and are never seen again.

每个人都面临着灾难 一些人消失了 再也见不到了

Flying bombs are very alarming.

飞弹总是让人绷紧神经

They came buzzing over...and then they would cut out.

它们呼啸而来 然后戛然而止

And when you heard the bang, you knew it wasn't you.

你听到嘭的一声 你知道你没有被炸

so you went back to your meal or whatever.

你继续吃饭或者做其他的事

But one did fall quite close to our house.

但是真的有个炸弹掉在我们的房子边上

and it blew the back windows out.

震破了玻璃

so that the glass was sticking dagger points all out of the opposite wall.

碎玻璃片像尖刀一样打到对面的墙上

When Stephen was born, we decided. ..He'd better be born in Oxford.

当史蒂芬要出生时 我们决定 他最好是出生在牛津

So while I was staying in the hospital.

所以当我呆在医院的时候

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、opposite

在…的对面

Jennie had sat opposite her at breakfast.

珍妮吃早餐时坐在她对面。

（同一类事物）截然相反的，全然不同的

All the cars driving in the opposite direction had their headlights on.

对面开来的车都打着头灯。

I should have written the notes in the opposite order.

我本应按相反的顺序记笔记的。

对立物；对立面

Ritter was a very complex man but Marius was the opposite, a simple farmer.

里特城府颇深，而马里厄斯恰恰相反，是个心地淳朴的农民。

Well, whatever he says you can bet he's thinking the opposite.

呃，不管他说什么，你都可以肯定他想的完全是另一套。