第1章 迷失在宇宙中 Lost in the Cosmos · 第3讲S3

1. 讲稿里说 'latching on to' 是 '抓住/得到' 的意思，但在 'latching on to one' 这里，它具体是指抓住那个数字本身，还是指理解这个数字背后的含义呀？
2. 文中提到 'ungraspable and amazing breadth'，'breath' 在这里被解释为 'length'（长度），但在宇宙学的语境下，它是指时间跨度还是空间范围呢？
3. 作者用了 'none other than Robert Dickey' 来介绍这位物理学家，这个 'none other than' 除了表示 '正是/就是' 之外，在语气上有什么特别的强调效果吗？
4. 为什么作者说 Guth 的 'great theory' 差点就没能诞生，非要 'except that' 他去听了那场讲座？这说明了灵感来源具有怎样的偶然性？
5. 文中提到 'most of what we know... is attributed to an idea'，这里的 'idea' 特指 'inflation theory'（暴涨理论）。这个理论的核心观点和我们常识里的宇宙膨胀有什么本质区别？

1. When the text says 'latching on to' means 'getting' or 'grasping', does 'latching on to one' here mean physically holding the number, or understanding what it implies?
2. The text explains 'breath' as 'length' in 'ungraspable and amazing breadth'. In the context of cosmology, does this refer to the span of time or the extent of space?
3. The author uses 'none other than Robert Dickey' to introduce the physicist. Besides meaning 'exactly', does this phrase carry any specific emphasis or surprise in tone?
4. Why does the author say Guth's 'great theory' almost wouldn't have happened unless 'except that' he attended that lecture? What does this suggest about the nature of inspiration?
5. The text states 'most of what we know... is attributed to an idea', specifically 'inflation theory'. What is the fundamental difference between this theory and the common understanding of universal expansion?

1 00:00:06,260 --> 00:00:09,700 We mustn't swoon over every extraordinary number that 2 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:10,780 comes before us, 3 00:00:10,940 --> 00:00:14,740 but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to 4 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:15,060 time, 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,960 just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:19,480 breadth. 7 00:00:21,580 --> 00:00:25,600 每次看到这些异乎寻常惊人的数字, 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,500 我们也不要每次都大惊小怪, 9 00:00:28,580 --> 00:00:30,600 不要每次就那么晕厥过去。 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,400 可见作者已经预想到我们刚才看到那个数字的时候是 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:37,380 什么样的感受了。 12 00:00:38,030 --> 00:00:43,550 但是他说也不要每次都那么晕厥过去但是 but it is 13 00:00:43,550 --> 00:00:48,570 perhaps worth latching on tolatching on to 本意是指获 14 00:00:48,570 --> 00:00:53,970 得得到 to get hold ofobtain 比如说 latched on to a 15 00:00:53,970 --> 00:00:58,590 fortune in a fair tradelatched on to 就是得到了得到了 16 00:00:58,590 --> 00:01:00,570 a fortune 得到了一大笔钱 17 00:01:01,980 --> 00:01:06,580 那这个 latching on to 既然是得到取得的那就相当于是 18 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:13,600 gr asping 就是抓住其实也就是理解的意思但也许时不 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:19,320 时的搞清楚那么一两个数字还是值得的 letting on to 20 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:25,740 one 这个 one 是一个代词它的指代对象就是前面的 21 00:01:25,740 --> 00:01:31,440 extraordinary number 就这么一个天文数字我们时 22 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,840 不时的也应该花点力气搞清楚那么一两个 just to be 23 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,480 reminded of their ungraspable and amazing 24 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:46,420 breathbreath means length 就是长度这样呢我们才能 25 00:01:46,420 --> 00:01:53,460 够真正理解他们男人无法了解无法想象的令人惊异的 26 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:57,020 长度 th us10 27 00:01:57,860 --> 00:02:04,760 to the power of 4010 to the power of minus 43 is 0. 28 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,980 0000 我不读了 29 00:02:20,380 --> 00:02:25,120 一千万兆兆兆分之一秒 30 00:02:52,800 --> 00:03:03,100 这个句子还是下划线的部分是主干结构我们所了解的 31 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:04,400 大部分知识 32 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:14,440 多数都是归功于某一个理念某一个观点现在我们来具 33 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,740 体来看这个 most of what we know 后面还跟着一些东西 34 00:03:19,380 --> 00:03:23,000 or believe we knowabout the early moments of the 35 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,980 universe 这个 know 后面应该跟上 about 就是了解了解 36 00:03:29,980 --> 00:03:36,900 哪一方面的东西呢就是关于宇宙早期的知识就是有关 37 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:42,470 宇宙早期的各种状况如今我们所了解我们所知道的或 38 00:03:42,470 --> 00:03:47,180 者我们认为自己知道的都 39 00:03:47,590 --> 00:03:55,030 大部分都归功于一个叫做暴涨理论的膨胀理论的一个 40 00:03:55,030 --> 00:03:58,980 ide a 那现在这个 inflation theory 41 00:03:59,690 --> 00:04:03,490 后面还有定语这个是后制定语 42 00:04:04,090 --> 00:04:08,050 过去分词做后制定语 first propounded in 43 00:04:08,050 --> 00:04:14,890 1979propounded means proposed or suggested 就是提出 44 00:04:14,890 --> 00:04:15,910 它 45 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:23,200 是于 1979 年由一位年轻的粒子物理学家首先提出的 46 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,220 junior 年 47 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:33,840 轻的跟它相反的就是 senior 年老的我们尊称为资深的 48 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:39,190 senior 是 s e n i o rparticle physicist 49 00:04:39,570 --> 00:04:41,810 粒子物理学家那 50 00:04:41,970 --> 00:04:47,810 后面这些信息还是关于这个粒子物理学家的一些具体 51 00:04:47,810 --> 00:04:56,410 的信息他当时在斯坦福现在在 M IT 就是麻省理工学院 52 00:04:56,410 --> 00:05:01,150 Named Alan Guth 名字叫做 Alan Guth He 53 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:07,380 was 32 years old and by his own admission had never done 54 00:05:07,380 --> 00:05:09,760 anything much before 他 55 00:05:10,650 --> 00:05:14,690 当时 32 岁而且他自己也承认 56 00:05:15,790 --> 00:05:22,230 根据他自己的承认他自认以前在学术上乏善可成 57 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:27,580 没做过什么 had never done anything much before he 58 00:05:31,580 --> 00:05:35,060 would probably never had his great theoryexcept that 59 00:05:35,060 --> 00:05:38,700 he happened to attend a lecture on the Big Banggiven by 60 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:43,840 none other than Robert Dickeyexcept that 要不是要不 61 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,770 是他正好参加了正好听了一场关于大爆炸的讲座的话 62 00:05:49,770 --> 00:05:52,300 他这辈子恐怕 63 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:58,540 不可能提出他的伟大理论 except that 要不是怎样的话 64 00:05:58,540 --> 00:06:02,800 比如 the exam went pretty wellexcept that I misread the 65 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,320 final question 要不是最后一道题我看错的话那这个 66 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,040 考试还是挺顺利的 I 67 00:06:10,490 --> 00:06:14,690 would buy the suitexcept that it costs too much 要不是 68 00:06:14,690 --> 00:06:18,210 这么贵的话我是会买这个衣服的 69 00:06:19,260 --> 00:06:21,040 好我们现在回到这个句子 70 00:06:22,810 --> 00:06:26,010 Except that he happened to attend a lecture on the Big 71 00:06:26,010 --> 00:06:28,950 Banggiven by none other than Robert Dickey 72 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:33,820 刚才我们还没有说这个 lecture 这个 lecture 后面还有 73 00:06:33,820 --> 00:06:39,020 过去分词做定语来修饰这个 lecture 这个 lecture 是谁 74 00:06:39,020 --> 00:06:42,380 给谁讲的呢这个讲座是谁 75 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,200 谁发表的这个讲座呢 N 76 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,620 one other than Robert Dickey 正是我们前面提到过的那 77 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:56,420 个普林斯顿大学的科学团队的领队 Robert Dickey 78 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:58,800 other than 79 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:02,060 这个词组 other than means apart from or besides 80 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:08,080 比如 other than one sister she has no close relatives 除 81 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,860 了一个姐妹以外她就没有什么近亲了没有什么亲近的 82 00:07:13,860 --> 00:07:16,570 亲属了 He doesn't eat pork, 83 00:07:16,830 --> 00:07:20,230 but other than that,he'll eat just about everything 84 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,020 他不吃猪肉,但除此之外, 85 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:30,540 他几乎什么都吃所以 other than 是指除此之外那么 n 86 00:07:30,540 --> 00:07:32,800 one other than 就 87 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,280 正好跟他是相反了, 88 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:40,720 n one 把他否定了那就正巧就是这个 The interviewer 89 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,360 was none other than his own brother 那个 90 00:07:44,390 --> 00:07:52,650 采访他的人正是他自己的兄弟所以这里就是不是别人 91 00:07:52,650 --> 00:07:54,470 正是那位 Robert Dickey 92 00:07:59,330 --> 00:08:04,830 这场讲 93 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:12,500 座给了 Guth 很大的启发 inspired someone 指的是激发 94 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:12,700 了 95 00:08:12,740 --> 00:08:18,920 启发了什么人所以这个词的名词 inspiration 就是灵 96 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,540 感的意思给启发了启 97 00:08:23,140 --> 00 ……（后略，完整文稿见视频页字幕）