欧美文化博览 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦(20)（在线收听）

They get these tables and they realize the next total solar eclipse will occur in the Crimere,

他们研究这些表格并且意识到下一次日全食会发生在厄喀德那,

which is in Russian territory, on the 21st of August, 1914.

那是俄罗斯的领土,而具体时间是1914年8月21日。

Freundlich goes to his boss, says, look, let's go to Russia, I'm collaborating with Einstein, would you put the money out?

弗雷德里希找到他的老板,说,你看,咱们去俄罗斯吧,我在与爱因斯坦合作,你会出这笔费用吗?

Then he says, no way. Just refuses.

他说道,没门。断然拒绝。

Einstein is absolutely furious.

爱因斯坦感到非常的愤怒。

Reaching beyond the European scientific establishment,

弗雷德里希找到欧洲科研机构以为的部门,

Freundlich enquires to the director of the Lick Observatory,

他询问予天文台的台长，,

near San Jose of California, a rugged outpost of American astronomy.

它坐落在加州圣·何塞附近,一条崎岖的道路中。

It was a community that've been on the mountain.

它位于一个社区,在一座山上。

They all had their families, their wives were there, their kid were all there.

他们都有家庭,他们的妻子在那里,他们的孩子都在那里。

They were depending on each other for survival.

他们相互依存才得以生存。

For many years it had the largest reflecting telescope in the world.

多年来,这座天文台一直拥有世界上最大的反射望远镜。

But the most importantly, it has William Wallace Campbell, a pioneer of eclipse photography.

但最重要的是,威廉·华莱士·坎贝尔这位日蚀摄影的先驱也在其中。