第3章 埃文斯牧师的宇宙 The Reverend Evans's Universe · 第3讲S4

1. 老师，讲稿里说 'pursue' 本意是‘追逐’，但这里指‘研究’，在英语里用‘追’来表示‘做研究’这种引申义，逻辑上是怎么联系起来的呀？
2. 文中描述星云照片用了 'delicate and moving splendour'，这里 'delicate' 不是通常说的‘脆弱’吗？为什么用来形容壮丽的星云景象？
3. 讲稿里提到 'NGC' 是 'New General Catalog' 的缩写，记录星云和星团。这和咱们以前学过的 'dictionary' 或者 'index' 有什么本质区别吗？
4. 为什么恒星爆炸的光要飞6000万年才到地球，而2001年才被人看见？这里 'unseasonally' 翻译成‘不停地’，为什么不用 'continuously' 更直接？
5. Robert Evans 觉得光线旅行数百万年后恰好被看见这件事很 'satisfying'，这种‘巧合’在科学观测中是常见的吗？还是作者故意在升华情感？

1. The transcript says 'pursue' originally means 'chase', but here it refers to 'research'. How does the logic connect 'chasing' to 'doing research' in English?
2. The text describes nebula photos with 'delicate and moving splendour'. Isn't 'delicate' usually meant as 'fragile'? Why is it used to describe such magnificent celestial scenes?
3. The transcript mentions 'NGC' stands for 'New General Catalog' and records nebulae and star clusters. What is the essential difference between this and the 'dictionary' or 'index' we learned before?
4. Why did the light from the exploding star take 60 million years to reach Earth, and why was it only seen in 2001? Why did the author use 'unseasonally' to mean 'non-stop' instead of the more direct 'continuously'?
5. Robert Evans felt it was 'satisfying' that light traveled for millions of years only to be seen at that exact moment. Is such 'coincidence' common in scientific observations, or is the author deliberately elevating the emotion?

1 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:12,260 The table beside the telescope were stacks of photos 2 00:00:12,260 --> 00:00:14,700 and papers relevant to his pursuits. 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,540 Stacks 是一叠一叠的,like stacks of money, 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:20,520 relevant,相关的。 5 00:00:20,580 --> 00:00:21,680 Pursuits. 6 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:26,320 I remember we learned the word pursue in lesson 2. 7 00:00:26,580 --> 00:00:29,620 在第二课学过这个词的动词是 pursue, 8 00:00:29,820 --> 00:00:36,100 p u r s u e.Prinston researchers were pursuing an idea 9 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:41,640 that had been suggested in the 1940s 这个 pursue 原意是 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:47,180 追逐、追寻的意思但是在这个情景之下, 11 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:48,900 它指的是研究 12 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:55,680 在望远镜旁边的桌子上放着一叠一叠的照片和文稿都 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,300 跟他的研究有关 and he showed me some of them now if you 14 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:02,540 have ever looked through popular astronomical 15 00:01:02,540 --> 00:01:06,420 publications and at some time you must have 16 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:13,740 假如你翻阅过一些通俗的天文出版物的话这 17 00:01:14,090 --> 00:01:19,150 一句就不是假设了这一句呢是作者比较肯定的一种推 18 00:01:19,150 --> 00:01:25,030 测他说你肯定是看过 you will know that they are 19 00:01:25,030 --> 00:01:29,050 generally full of richly luminous color photos of 20 00:01:29,050 --> 00:01:33,690 distant nebulae and the likefairy lit clouds of 21 00:01:33,690 --> 00:01:37,010 celestial light of the most delicate and moving splend 22 00:01:37,010 --> 00:01:41,840 orluminous means glowing or shining 23 00:01:42,540 --> 00:01:47,000 我们可以看一下这张图这在淘宝上都有卖的是 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,580 luminous paint 夜光漆 25 00:01:50,340 --> 00:01:53,880 涂着夜里会发光的 luminous paint 26 00:01:54,820 --> 00:01:57,920 再看哈利波特里的一个咒语叫 luminous 27 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,160 你只要说一下 luminous 你的魔障就会发光 28 00:02:02,980 --> 00:02:08,060 虽然哈利波特里的咒语都是作者生造出来的他创造出 29 00:02:08,060 --> 00:02:13,740 来的这些词原先都并不存在但是他造词也并不是没有 30 00:02:13,740 --> 00:02:19,280 依据的他是根据一些词根的意义比如说这个 Lumos 明 31 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,100 显就是跟我们这个 Luminous 是有关系的 32 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:28,600 Nebula 是星云这是复数形式 33 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:34,330 我不说它的单数是什么呀大家能不能自己想出来呢它 34 00:02:34,330 --> 00:02:38,010 跟我们之前学过的一个词是很相似的 35 00:02:39,220 --> 00:02:45,400 再有 delicatedelicate 可能在别的地方你们见过是很 36 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:52,020 虚弱的意思很纤细但是在这儿它指的是精美的非常美 37 00:02:52,020 --> 00:02:57,750 妙的 splend or 我们只要知道它的形容词是什么意思你 38 00:02:57,750 --> 00:03:04,580 就知道它名词了 Splendid 是绚丽多彩的辉煌的假 39 00:03:04,970 --> 00:03:10,190 如你翻阅过通俗的天文学杂志你可能也是翻阅过的你 40 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:16,670 一定会知道杂志里边呢大部分都是色彩非常绚烂的彩 41 00:03:16,670 --> 00:03:24,210 色照片这些彩照呢主要是遥远的星云 And the like And 42 00:03:24,210 --> 00:03:29,170 the like 表示以及类似的东西那这里我们可以翻译成 43 00:03:29,170 --> 00:03:32,390 之类遥远的星云之类的相片 44 00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:41,440 仿佛是神仙 fairy 是神仙的意思用天光去照亮了云彩 45 00:03:42,260 --> 00:03:50,060 lit 是 light 的过去式 light l i g h t 在我们刚才才刚刚说 46 00:03:50,060 --> 00:03:52,640 过点燃蜡烛的那个 light 47 00:03:54,710 --> 00:03:58,890 of the most delicate and moving splend or 色彩是非常的 48 00:03:58,890 --> 00:04:03,490 绚丽,烘托出非常细致感人的壮丽景象。 49 00:04:34,990 --> 00:04:38,490 我们在学冥王星的那一课学过了模模糊糊的 50 00:04:38,890 --> 00:04:43,810 它们只是模模糊糊的黑白照片有一些光点而已 when 51 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,080 he showed me depicted a swarm of starswith a traveling 52 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,880 flare that I had to put close to my face to seedepicted 53 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,560 means to describe something or someonewith words or 54 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,480 pictures 描 55 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,300 述或者描绘 a swarm of stars means a large number of 56 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:10,040 stars a group of stars 其中一张照片上面画着很多很多 57 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,660 的星星众多的星星当中有 a traveling flare Traveling 58 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:16,480 means insignificant, 59 00:05:17,180 --> 00:05:19,840 faint or tiny Fl are, 60 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,220 actually we came across this word in chapter 2, 61 00:05:23,380 --> 00:05:27,300 the second sentence If someone struck a match on the 62 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:30,600 moon,they could spot the flare 大家还记得这句吗? 63 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:34,340 Fl are 指的是火焰,光焰他 64 00:05:34,980 --> 00:05:36,460 给我看的那张图里边 65 00:05:37,130 --> 00:05:42,510 一群的星星当中只有那么一点点的光焰我还得把它凑 66 00:05:42,510 --> 00:05:43,770 近鼻尖才看得见 67 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:57,200 他 68 00:05:57,270 --> 00:06:03,570 指着那个观点说这是一个叫天炉座的星座中的一颗恒 69 00:06:03,570 --> 00:06:06,870 星 Constellation 是星座 Phoenix 70 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:13,220 拉丁文是火炉的意思所以我们翻译成天炉座这个天炉 71 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:19,540 座 from a galaxy known to astronomy as N G C 1365 天炉座是 72 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:28,700 属于天文学界所知的 NG C 1365 号星系 NG C stands for New 73 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:32,320 General Catalog Catalog 是目录 74 00:06:32,610 --> 00:06:33,710 General 75 00:06:33,950 --> 00:06:38,450 总目录也就是新编总目录 Where 76 00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:43,040 these things are recorded 这个星边总目录记录的就是 77 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:48,960 这些东西 These things These things 准确的来说就是 78 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:55,260 Nebulae and Clusters of Stars 这是 NG C 的总称星云与星 79 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:57,380 团星边总目录 80 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,920 Once it was a heavy book on someone's desk in Dublin 81 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,960 Dublin is the capital city of Ireland 是爱尔兰的首都 82 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,600 这里只是随便说了一个地名他的意思是, 83 00:07:10,660 --> 00:07:16,680 以前呢,这本书是某人案头的一本厚重的大书今天, 84 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,380 needless to say,不消说我不用说你也知道, 85 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,780 it's a database 它现在一定是电脑储存的数据库了 Now 86 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:35,560 this is a picture of N G C 1365 就是天炉座的蚌旋星系 For 87 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,420 60 million silent years the light from the star's 88 00:07:40,420 --> 00:07:43,480 spectacular demise Demise traveled unseasonally 89 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,060 through space,until one night in August of 2001, 90 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:51,340 it arrived at Earth in the form of a puff of radiance, 91 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,060 the tiniest brightening in the night sky. 92 00:07:54,6 ……（后略，完整文稿见视频页字幕）