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原版英文故事与诗歌:The Einstein and the Eddington

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   The sun was setting on the links,

 
  The moon looked down serene1,
 
  The caddies all had gone to bed,
 
  But still there could be seen
 
  Two players lingering by the trap
 
  That guards the thirteenth green.
 
  The Einstein and the Eddington
 
  Were counting up their score;
 
  The Einstein's card showed ninety-eight
 
  And Eddington's was more.
 
  And both lay bunkered in the trap
 
  And both stood there and swore.
 
  I hate to see, the Einstein said;
 
  Such quantities of sand;
 
  Just why they placed a bunker here
 
  I cannot understand.
 
  If one could smooth this landscape out,
 
  I think it would be grand.
 
  If seven maids with seven mops
 
  Would sweep the fairway clean
 
  I'm sure that I could make this hole
 
  In less than seventeen.
 
  I doubt it, said the Eddington,
 
  Your slice is pretty mean.
 
  Then all the little golf balls came
 
  To see what they were at,
 
  And some of them were tall and thin
 
  And some were short and fat,
 
  A few of them were round and smooth,
 
  But most of them were flat.
 
  The time has come, said Eddington,
 
  To talk of many things:
 
  Of cubes and clocks and meter-sticks
 
  And why a pendulum2 swings.
 
  And how far space is out of plumb3,
 
  And whether time has wings.
 
  I learned at school the apple's fall
 
  To gravity was due,
 
  But now you tell me that the cause
 
  Is merely G_mu-nu,
 
  I cannot bring myself to think
 
  That this is really true.
 
  You say that gravitation's force
 
  Is clearly not a pull.
 
  That space is mostly emptiness,
 
  While time is nearly full;
 
  And though I hate to doubt your word,
 
  It sounds like a bit of bull.
 
  And space, it has dimensions four,
 
  Instead of only three.
 
  The square of the hypotenuse
 
  Ain't what it used to be.
 
  It grieves me sore, the things you've done
 
  To plane geometry.
 
  You hold that time is badly warped4,
 
  That even light is bent5:
 
  I think I get the idea there,
 
  If this is what you meant:
 
  The mail the postman brings today,
 
  Tomorrow will be sent.
 
  If I should go Timbuctoo
 
  With twice the speed of light,
 
  And leave this afternoon at four,
 
  I'd get back home last night.
 
  You've got it now, the Einstein said,
 
  That is precisely6 right.
 
  But if the planet Mercury
 
  In going round the sun,
 
  Never returns to where it was
 
  Until its course is run,
 
  The things we started out to do
 
  Were better not begun.
 
  And if before the past is through,
 
  The future intervenes;
 
  Then what's the use of anything;
 
  Of cabbages or queens?
 
  Pray tell me what's the bally use
 
  Of Presidents and Deans.
 
  The shortest line, Einstein replied,
 
  Is not the one that's straight;
 
  It curves around upon itself,
 
  Much like a figure eight,
 
  And if you go too rapidly
 
  You will arrive too late.
 
  But Easter day is Christmas time
 
  And far away is near,
 
  And two and two is more than four
 
  And over there is here.
 
  You may be right, said Eddington,
 
  It seems a trifle queer.
 
  But thank you very, very much,
 
  For troubling to explain;
 
  I hope you will forgive my tears,
 
  My head begins to pain;
 
  I feel the symptoms coming on
 
  Of softening7 of the brain.

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1 serene PD2zZ     
adj. 安详的,宁静的,平静的
参考例句:
  • He has entered the serene autumn of his life.他已进入了美好的中年时期。
  • He didn't speak much,he just smiled with that serene smile of his.他话不多,只是脸上露出他招牌式的淡定的微笑。
2 pendulum X3ezg     
n.摆,钟摆
参考例句:
  • The pendulum swung slowly to and fro.钟摆在慢慢地来回摆动。
  • He accidentally found that the desk clock did not swing its pendulum.他无意中发现座钟不摇摆了。
3 plumb Y2szL     
adv.精确地,完全地;v.了解意义,测水深
参考例句:
  • No one could plumb the mystery.没人能看破这秘密。
  • It was unprofitable to plumb that sort of thing.这种事弄个水落石出没有什么好处。
4 warped f1a38e3bf30c41ab80f0dce53b0da015     
adj.反常的;乖戾的;(变)弯曲的;变形的v.弄弯,变歪( warp的过去式和过去分词 );使(行为等)不合情理,使乖戾,
参考例句:
  • a warped sense of humour 畸形的幽默感
  • The board has warped. 木板翘了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
6 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
参考例句:
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
7 softening f4d358268f6bd0b278eabb29f2ee5845     
变软,软化
参考例句:
  • Her eyes, softening, caressed his face. 她的眼光变得很温柔了。它们不住地爱抚他的脸。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • He might think my brain was softening or something of the kind. 他也许会觉得我婆婆妈妈的,已经成了个软心肠的人了。
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