时差N小时:巴克敏斯特福乐和他的球型屋顶
日期:2014-08-12 16:26

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Ever heard of a man named Buckminster Fuller, or Bucky, as hisfriends called him?
听说过一个叫巴克敏斯特·福乐的人吗?
R.Buckminster Fuller was a twentieth centuryscientist, philosopher, inventor, and was also named a great architect.
朋友们常叫他巴基;]_-#CWFdX。巴克敏斯特·福乐是二十世纪的科学家,哲学家,发明家,同时他也是一名伟大的建筑师HGJW1K-bOh!8Ma-f;VSL
Part of what made Bucky so special was his concern for the planet and humanity.
他如此特别的部分原因是他很关心地球和人类bp,5gGkHmS1
When you have a shortage of resources, he said, you get war.
他说当缺乏资源时,就会发生战争I2K@Y6[nrNDAMfd@u
Thus, he developed an idea called ComprehensiveAnticipatory Design Science.
所以,他开创了一种观念,叫作“全面预期设计科学”W&d;589kf_N5E
It’s a mouthful, but what it entails is his belief that to solve humanity’smajor problems.
这个名字有点拗口,但它需要巴基的信念来解决人类主要问题k;HQKS95H4R0

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We have to look forward to the future; we have to anticipate what will becomeproblems as resources diminish, etc.
我们必须展望未来;我们必须预期会出现的问题,比如资源减少等等lH~IIPjb!S
His goal? Quote:
他是目标?
“More and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources.”
引用一句话:用最少的资源维持更多人的生活!9F.wuciRJuAT5,T%
He wasespecially interested in developing more efficient housing; that is, a new way of constructingbuildings so that they provide more housing space with the use of fewer resources.
他对开发更高效的住房特别有兴趣;那是一种建造房屋的新的方式,用更少的资源提供更多的住房空间DnTPdIF@E2iG
One solutionhe came up with in the late 1940′s is the geodesic dome, the invention he is most famous for.
上世纪40年代末,巴基提出了一个解决方法,即球型屋顶,这也是他最著名的发明Z2_=~+6,_pqUXXH=
The geodesic dome is a structure shaped like a piece of a sphere.
球型屋顶是一个形状像球体的结构@RNl*Rg-8~
It’s made up of a complexnetwork of triangles, and the more complex this network the closer the comes to the shape of atrue sphere.
它由一个复杂的网状三角形构成HM=|ce_4(EzmU。网状结构越复杂,建筑物的形状就越接近于真实的球体l&SwkYgHoz1*O
What’s so great about the dome is that it does exactly what Bucky wanted; that is,it has the highest ratio of enclosed area to external surface.
圆屋顶额伟大之处在于它封闭区到外部表面的比例最高,那正是巴基想要的效果]RSY#BSa49
In other words, it uses fewer materialsto create more housing space.
换句话说,就是用更少的材料建造更多住房空间0NBWO6sW-0znusUFgd

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重点单词
  • externaladj. 外部的,外面的,外来的,表面的 n. 外部,外
  • diminishvt. 减少,变小,减损 vi. 变少,逐渐变细
  • domen. 圆屋顶
  • anticipatevt. 预期,抢 ... 前,语言,提前使用 vi. 预
  • solvev. 解决,解答
  • quoten. 引用 v. 引述,举证,报价
  • inventionn. 发明,发明物,虚构,虚构物
  • complexadj. 复杂的,复合的,合成的 n. 复合体,综合体,
  • humanityn. 人类,人性,人道,慈爱,(复)人文学科
  • efficientadj. 效率高的,胜任的