欧美文化博览 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦(5)

 

Sitting alone on the city bus, Einstein believes he has glimpsed the secret of the Universe.

独自一人坐在公交车上,爱因斯坦相信他已经窥探到了宇宙的奥秘。

For Einstein , space was this place where stuff walls and didn't do anything, they have stuff in it.

对于爱因斯坦来说，空间是个四周有墙的地方,而且有东西在里面。

This space combined with time to become spacetime is a more dynamic understanding of this arena¹ that everything takes place in becoming more alive in a way .

这个空间与时间结合成为宇宙时间，成为一个更为活跃的时空，这一领域一切都以一种更有活力的方式发生着。

Things very outlandish very very strange things.

事情非常古怪，已经到了稀奇古怪的程度。

Rarely had anything so radical² been submitted to Europe's most prestigous scientific journals .

欧洲最权威的科学期刊上几乎没有刊登过如此深入的研究。

It was a complete outside to the physical phase to date as he was being in Switzerland being a patent clerk and yet he was abmicious enough to think that he could chanllenge the whole of established physics at the time .

他在瑞士专利局的职员身份对于物理领域来说简直是外行,但他仍然有信心足挑战整个物理学。

1 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

2 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。