时差N小时 穿越隧道

Don:What a great day for a drive! How do you like my new Ferarri?

唐:多么适合兜风的天气!你觉得我的新法拉利怎么样?

Yael:Very fancy.

雅艾尔:非常花俏。

Don:Best of all, the radio works, so we can still enjoy A Moment of Science.

唐:最重要的是,收音机也很酷,所以我们仍然可以享受科学时刻节目。

Hey, I think it's coming on now.

嘿,我想节目马上就来了。

Yael:Hey, where'd the signal go?

雅艾尔:嘿,信号去哪里了?

Don:It must be because we're driving through a tunnel. Try an FM station.

唐:那一定是因为我们开车穿过一个隧道的缘故。试试一个FM调频电台。

Yael:There it is!

雅艾尔:有了!

How come we can hear FM longer in a tunnel than AM?

为什么我们在隧道中能听到FM调频而不是AM调幅?

Don:It's because FM stations transmit at higher frequencies.

唐:这是因为FM调频电台传输更高的频率。

They generally go from eighty-eight to one-hundred-and-eight megahertz.

通常会从88到108兆赫。

That's over a hundred million cycles per second.

超过每秒一亿次。

Yael:Wow! That's pretty fast.

雅艾尔:哇!那可是相当快。

Don:As a result, a single radio wave from an FM station is only a few meters long, about the size of a car.

唐:结果, FM电台单一的无线电波只有几米长,约相当于一辆车。

An AM station is putting out radio waves that are hundreds of times as long!

而AM电台伸展数百倍长的无线电波!

Yael:So the longer wavelengths¹ can't make it as easily into tunnels?

雅艾尔:那长的电波不是更容易进入隧道吗?

Don:Long wavelengths tend to be absorbed or blocked as they try to enter the smaller tunnel.

唐:长电波在试图进入较小的隧道时往往被吸收或阻碍。

The higher-energy and shorter-wavelength waves from an FM station aren't absorbed or blocked as much.

而FM电台的高能量和短波长电波没有被吸收或阻碍。

Instead, they tend to bounce around and get reflected off of surfaces.

相反,它们被从表面反弹和反射。

Yael:Like the inside of a tunnel.

雅艾尔:像是隧道里。

Don:Yep. Of course, they only bounce so far.

唐:是的。当然,它们只是反弹到这段。

If the tunnel is long enough, even FM stations fade out until you come out the other end.

如果隧道足够长,甚至直到你从隧道另一端出来FM电台也会渐渐弱化。

Yael:Here we are!

雅艾尔:我们现在就出来了!

1 wavelengths   

n.波长( wavelength的名词复数 )；具有相同的/不同的思路；合拍；不合拍

参考例句：

• I find him difficult to talk to—we're on completely different wavelengths. 我没法和他谈话，因为我们俩完全不对路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation. 阳光由几种不同波长的射线组成。 来自辞典例句