英語名篇名段背誦:17.兩種時間觀念(2/2)
來源:滬江聽寫酷
2012-02-11 22:34
Or they may suggest the remarkable brevity of our lives in the cosmic scale of time. If the estimated age of the cosmos were shorted to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds.
But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on with the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.
或者這些圖片也表明與宇宙相比,我們的生命是多么短暫。如果宇宙的壽命被縮短到72年,相應的,人的生命只有大約10秒鐘。
但是從另一個方面審視時間,每天都是86000秒中一個微小的永恒。每一秒鐘內(nèi),人體內(nèi)消失的分子結(jié)構的數(shù)量都可以與宇宙的年齡相提并論。幾秒鐘時間足夠產(chǎn)生一個革命性的理論,一個令人驚訝的溝通,一個嬰兒的孕育,一個令人傷心的冒犯,一個生命的突然逝去。 這取決于我們?nèi)绾慰创@些事兒,我們的生命可以無限長,也可能無限短。
——譯文來自: akritkey
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