加载中…0571翻译:什么比猎豹的速度更快(罗伯特.E.威尔斯/译者于姝)
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0571翻译: 什么比猎豹的速度更快 (罗伯特.E.威尔斯/译者于姝)
Translation: What's Faster Than a
Speeding Cheetah (Robert E. Wells/Translated by Yu Shu)
(translated by: alexcwlin; edited by: Adam Lam)
[2005A07]
Maybe you can run fast.
不过要是你跟猎豹和鸵鸟赛跑的话，就一点儿赢的希望也没有了。
But if you were to race a cheetah or an ostrich, you wouldn't stand a chance of winning.
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人在奋力奔跑的时候，最大速度能够达到二十四千米每小时。
When a man is running hard, he can reach a maximum speed of 24 kilometers per hour.
这个速度跟鸵鸟比起来差远了——鸵鸟奔跑的最大速度是七十二千米每小时。
That's a far cry from the speed of an ostrich, which has a top speed of 72 kilometers per hour.
在两条腿的动物里面, 鸵鸟应该算是奔跑的世界冠军。
Of all the animals on two legs, the ostrich is considered the world champion runner.
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比鸵鸟跑得更快的动物就要数猎豹了。
The animal that can outrun the ostrich is the cheetah.
猎豹奔跑的最大速度可达一百一十千米每小时。
The cheetah can run at a maximum speed of 110 kilometers per hour.
猎豹才是陆地上跑得最快的动物!
The cheetah is the fastest animal on land in reality!
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但是游隼向下俯冲时的速度更快，超过三百二十千米每小时!
But a peregrine falcon dives even faster at over 320 kilometers per hour!
这个速度是汽车在高速公路上飞速行驶时速度的两到三倍!
That's two to three times the speed of a car going very fast on the highway!
它俯冲时的速度比任何一种动物奔跑时的速度都要快。
It swoops faster than the speed that any animal is capable of running.
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不过，游隼还是没有飞机飞行的速度快!
Yet the peregrine falcon can't fly as fast as an airplane!
在喷气式飞机飞行的高度，声音传播的速度大约是一千零五十千米每小时， 而一些高速喷气式飞机的飞行速度是声速的数倍。
At the altitude of a jet plane, sound travels at about 1,050 kilometers per hour, and some high-speed jet planes travel several times the speed of sound.
如果你对着一个以超音速移动的人大喊，他是什么都听不见的。
If you shout at a man moving at supersonic speeds, he can't hear anything.
因为声音根本就追不上他。
That’s because the voice can’t catch up to him.
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乘坐喷气式飞机去旅行，速度绝对是够快的了。
Traveling by jet plane is definitely fast enough.
但是，如果你想到月球上去，就需要搭乘速度更快的工具了。
But if you want to go to the moon, you'll need to take something much faster.
对!我们需要一枚火箭。
Right! We need a rocket.
为了摆脱地心引力，飞到浩瀚的太空中，火箭的速度要比喷气式飞机快得多才行。
To escape from gravity and fly into the vast space, the rocket must travel much faster than the jet plane.
火箭的最大速度能达到四万千米每小时，是声速的三十多倍。
The rocket can reach a maximum speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour, which is more than thirty times the speed of sound.
进入太空之后，即使关掉发动机，火箭仍可以继续前进。
Once in space, the rocket can keep going even if its engines are turned off.
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看!前面呼啸而过的东西是什么?
Look! What's that object whizzing past?
跟它的速度一比，火箭就好像是静止的一样。
Relative to its speed, the rocket would seem like it’s standing still.
那是流星体!
That's a meteoroid!
流星体是太空中一种较小的天体。
The meteoroid is a comparably small object in space.
有的流星体运动的最大速度能达到二十五万千米每小时，是火箭运动速度的六倍多。
Some meteoroids can travel at a maximum speed of 250,000 kilometers per hour, which is more than six times the speed of the rocket.
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现在，你一定会认为流星体是人们所能见到的速度最快的物体。
Now, you would think that meteoroids are the fastest objects that people can see.
不过，还有比流星体运动速度快得多的东西，而且它就在我们身边。
Yet there's something much faster than meteoroids, and it's all around us.
只要我们按下手电筒的开关，立刻会出现束光柱。
As soon as we press the switch of a flashlight, a beam of light will appear.
光的速度是惊人的，大约是三十万千米每秒，比流星体的速度要快几千倍!
The speed of light is amazing, which is about 300,000 kilometers per second—thousands of times faster than that of the meteoroid!
如果按照光速运动，我们一秒钟就可以沿着地球赤道转约七圈多!
Moving at the speed of light, we can circle the Earth's equator more than seven times a second!
科学家认为光的传播速度是最快的。
Scientists believe light travels the fastest.
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真是令人难以置信，宇宙中最快的东西居然可以轻易地拿在手上!
It's incredible how easily the fastest thing in the universe can be held in your hand!
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