托福听力长难句分析(十五)

同学们在学习托福听力的过程中，最头疼的就是句子的理解，尤其是长难句。但是相对于阅读文本来说，听力的问题其实是比较简答的，我们在理解句子的时候基本只要考划分句子的主干成分，配合一些短语搭配就可以了，但是关键是要求我们的反应速度要非常的快，我们现在就具体以TPO中的句子为例，来分析一下长难句。(TPO2-L4)

Is it the distance of the planets from the Sun? Right. In astronomical units—not perfect, but tantalizingly close.

是从这些行星到太阳的距离吗?是的用天文单位计算，不算完美但是也很接近了

Um, it isn’t really a scientific law, not in the sense of predicting gravitation mathematically or something, but it’s attempting a pattern in the spacing of the planets, and it was noticed by Bode hundreds of years ago.

这不是一个真正意义上的科学定律，并不是预测重力数值之类，他在尝试测量星球之间的距离，在几半年前被Bode发现。

Well, you can imagine that there was some interest in why the 2.8 spot in the pattern was skipped, and um . . . but there wasn’t anything obvious there, in the early telescopes.

你们可以设想一下，为什么我们跳过了2.8这个点，在早期的望远镜中我们确实看不见什么东西。

And look, Uranus fits in the next spot in the pattern pretty nicely, um, not perfectly, but close. And so then people got really excited about the validity of this thing and finding the missing object between Mars and Jupiter.

天王星非常符合这个位置，虽然不是非常精准但是也非常接近了。后来人们对于这个模式的准确性变得非常感兴趣，并且开始寻找火星和木星之间缺失的天体。

And telescopes, remember, were getting better. So people went to work on finding objects that would be at that missing distance from the Sun, and then in 1801, the object Ceres was discovered.

并且天文望远镜也变得越来越好，所以人们开始寻找这里的缺失的天体，后来在1801年谷神星被发现

And Ceres was in the right place—the missing spot. Uh, but it was way too faint to be a planet. It looked like a little star. Uh, and because of its starlike appearance, um, it was called an “asteroid.”

谷神星正好处于这个位置，但是它太微弱了不可能是一个行星，看上去像一颗小星星，因为它长得很像星星，我们把它叫做小行星。

Ceres was the first and is the largest of what became many objects discovered at that same distance.

谷神星是第一个也是在同一距离发现的最大的行星。

Not just one thing, but all the objects found at that distance from the asteroid belt. So the asteroid belt is the most famous success of this Bode’s Law. That’s how the asteroid belt was discovered.

在从整个行星带到这个空档之间的距离里也算是最大的。行星带的发现是波德定律里最成功的发现。

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