关于宇宙起源的科学发现 ——1998年英译汉及详解 They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of

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问题 关于宇宙起源的科学发现
——1998年英译汉及详解
They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light years from earth.【F1】But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected; the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Cosmic Background Explorer satellite—Cobe—had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin with the primeval explosion that has become known as the Big Bang(the theory that the universe originated in an explosion from a single mass of energy).
【F2】The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang, first put forward in the 1920s, to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cosmos. According to the theory, the universe burst into being as a submicroscopic, unimaginable dense knot of pure energy that flew outward in all directions, emitting radiation as it went, condensing into particles and then into atoms of gas. Over billions of years, the gas was compressed by gravity into galaxies, stars, plants and eventually, even humans.
Cobe is designed to see just the biggest structures, but astronomers would like to see much smaller hot spots as well, the seeds of local objects like clusters and superclusters of galaxies. They shouldn’t have long to wait.【F3】Astrophysicists working with ground based detectors at the South Pole and balloon borne instruments are closing in on such structures, and may report their findings soon.
【F4】If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory. Inflation says that very early on, the universe expanded in size by more than a trillion trillion trillion trillion fold in much less than a second, propelled by a sort of antigravity.【F5】Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.
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答案假如那些小热点看上去同预计的一致,那就意味着又一科学理论的胜利,这种理论即更完美的大爆炸论,亦称宇宙膨胀说。

解析 本句考查重点是:同位语、习语的翻译。 该句是主从复合句,主干是:If…,that will be a triumph…,a refinement…。as expected是一种习惯用法,意为“正如预料的那样”。idea后的成分是它的同位语,同位语可以用中文的“即、也就是”等词翻译,需要时可以把idea,这个词重复翻译一遍。这里由于同位语较长,可以单独处理成一个句子。called…theory为过去分词做the Big Bang的后置定语,可以译为前置定语,当然也可以独立成句。
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