时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(六)月


英语课

This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.


It’s a plotline worthy 1 of an action film—galaxies 2, violently torn apart, smashing into one another, leaving remnants of themselves behind billions of years later. That’s the scene that accounts for some of the oldest stars in our own Milky 3 Way galaxy 4, according to work published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 5 Society.


Researchers ran a huge computer simulation of the evolution of the universe starting shortly after the big bang, more than 13 billion years ago. It’s the most detailed 6 model ever produced, and allowed a close examination of the make-up of the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The stellar halo is debris 7 that surrounds our familiar white swirl 8 of stars. The halo is much larger and much older than the Milky Way itself.


And the simulations show that the ancient stars in the halo were formed from young, small galaxies that collided and left behind fragments of themselves, as opposed to those stars actually being born in the Milky Way when it started forming 10 billion years ago. The researchers say the scene depicts 9 the dramatic—and violent—clashes that were taking place long, long ago, in a galaxy not very far away.


Thanks for the minute for Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Cynthia Graber.

 



1 worthy
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
2 galaxies
星系( galaxy的名词复数 ); 银河系; 一群(杰出或著名的人物)
  • Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
  • We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。
3 milky
adj.牛奶的,多奶的;乳白色的
  • Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
  • I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。
4 galaxy
n.星系;银河系;一群(杰出或著名的人物)
  • The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
  • The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
5 astronomical
adj.天文学的,(数字)极大的
  • He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.他是研究中国古代天文学文献的专家。
  • Houses in the village are selling for astronomical prices.乡村的房价正在飙升。
6 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
7 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
8 swirl
v.(使)打漩,(使)涡卷;n.漩涡,螺旋形
  • The car raced roughly along in a swirl of pink dust.汽车在一股粉红色尘土的漩涡中颠簸着快速前进。
  • You could lie up there,watching the flakes swirl past.你可以躺在那儿,看着雪花飘飘。
9 depicts
描绘,描画( depict的第三人称单数 ); 描述
  • The book vividly depicts French society of the 1930s. 这本书生动地描绘了20 世纪30 年代的法国社会。
  • He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively. 他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
标签: SSS evolution
学英语单词
2-aminophenol-4-sulfonic acid
a value not less than the threshold for supervision
American
anamorphic map
auto-container
Bayes' theorem
big-leaguers
calixtus iis
capacitive saw-tooth generator
carotid pulse
chloroacetyl isocyanate
chromium electroplating
classified bibliography
cochleovestibular
colour hue
continuous movement projector
copper phthalocyanine dye
coreleased
crepuscularities
crystal fluorescence
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
design liaison meeting
dimension system of mechanics
dislocating
effective irrigation area
electrolytic acid cleaning
embargo import and export
Eutychian, Saint
fabric porosity
fistulous witherss
flatseam stitch
flowsheeting
forty winks
galluss galluss
genus Rutilus
godlore
grammaticizing
guarantee against double jeopardy
hattersleys
heat exchanger of cold helium
Hilary Rodham Clinton
hyperalaninemia
index lf living
induced-fit
iniquitousness
interleaving
international classification of patents
interruption mask
isotopic rate of exchange
Klimpfjäll
liquid elevating valve
local aggression
lustenberger
main oscillator
micronuclear
motoralternator
new time
Newtown Crommelin
not care a chip for
now-and-then
obstante
Omega tables
pay off function
pernor of profits
pig-nosed turtle
plasmalogen
Poggio Renatico
pre investment project
predominant trees
pressure gradient correction factor
Primula caldaria
radio pratique message
reduced presure test
rhomphaea sagana
rift grain
rod coupler
saagwala
scouring reservoir
semibounded operator
sense realism
short circuit current gain
single-suction impeller
siphamia versicolor
snoops
spunging
swamp white oak
synaptoplastic
synchronized SRAM
tabescent
talk at sb.
toroidal confinement
tragic figure
tuned dipole
unergative
unfair dismissal claim
vane exit angle
Vanuatuans
visual property
voluntary contribution
Wilbarger County
woodboxes
Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von