新概念英語(yǔ)第四冊(cè)自學(xué)導(dǎo)讀:第十四課蝴蝶效應(yīng)(下)

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14-7. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and any other quantity a meteorologist would want.
    【譯文】再假定每個(gè)傳感器都絲毫不差地讀出了溫度、氣壓、濕度和氣象學(xué)家可能需要的任何其他數(shù)據(jù)。
    【單詞和短語(yǔ)】
    由meteorologist(氣象學(xué)家)聯(lián)想到meteorology(氣象學(xué))、meteorological observatory(氣象臺(tái))和meteorological station(氣象站)。
    14-8. Precisely at noon an infinitely powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 1202, then 12.03...
    【譯文】在正午時(shí)分,一臺(tái)功能不可限量的計(jì)算機(jī)搜集了所有的資料,計(jì)算出每個(gè)點(diǎn)12點(diǎn)01分、12點(diǎn)02分、12點(diǎn)03分及以后每分鐘可能出現(xiàn)的情況。
    【單詞和短語(yǔ)】
    infinite: 無(wú)限的,無(wú)窮的,無(wú)邊的(very great in amount or degree),
    例如:
    the infinite ingenuity of man 人類(lèi)無(wú)窮無(wú)盡的創(chuàng)造力
    Space is infinite. 宇宙的無(wú)邊無(wú)際的。
    infinite的名詞形式為infinity(想到無(wú)窮大的符號(hào)∞)或infinitude。
    14-9. The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away.
    【譯文】計(jì)算機(jī)將仍然無(wú)法預(yù)測(cè)新澤西州的普林斯頓1個(gè)月后那天究竟是晴天還是雨日。
    【單詞和短語(yǔ)】
    predict:預(yù)言,預(yù)計(jì),預(yù)料,預(yù)報(bào)(to say that something will happen, before it happens),
    例如:
    He predicted a brilliant future for the child.
    他曾預(yù)言這孩子前程似錦。
    Terrorism in this country is predicted to increase in coming years.
    預(yù)計(jì)該國(guó)的恐怖活動(dòng)今后幾年還會(huì)增加。
    predict的名詞形式為prediction。
    14-10. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations that the computer will not know about, tiny deviations from the average.
    【譯文】正午時(shí)分,傳感器之間的距離會(huì)掩蓋計(jì)算機(jī)無(wú)法知道的波動(dòng)和任何偏平均值的變化。
    【講解】that the computer will not know about系定語(yǔ)從句,修飾sensors。
    【單詞和短語(yǔ)】
    fluctuate:波動(dòng),漲落,起伏(if a price or amount fluctuates, it keeps changing and becoming higher and lower),
    例如:
    You cannot match in straight line to the victory; you fluctuate to it.
    你不可能一帆風(fēng)順地走向勝利,而要經(jīng)過(guò)許多波折才能達(dá)到。
    The demands fluctuate seasonally。
    需求隨季節(jié)而變動(dòng)。
    fluctuate的名詞形式為fluctuation。
    14-11. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away.
    【譯文】到12點(diǎn)01分,那些波動(dòng)就已經(jīng)會(huì)在1英尺遠(yuǎn)的地方造成小偏差。
    14-12. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.
    【譯文】很快這些偏差會(huì)增加到10英尺的范圍,如此一直擴(kuò)大到全球的范圍。