(单词翻译:单击)
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The things everyone should know about time.
关于时间，每个人都该知道的事。
The past and future are equally real.
过去与未来都是真实的。
This isn't completely accepted, but it should be.
并不是所有人都接受这个观点，但是大家应该接受。
Intuitively we think that the“now”is real, while the past is fixed and in the books, and the future hasn't yet occurred.
凭直觉，我们认为“现在”是真实的，“过去”只存在于书中，而“未来”尚未发生。
But physics teaches us something remarkable: every event in the past and future is implicit in the current moment.
但物理学告诉我们一个惊人的事实：过去与未来的每一刻都存在于当下。
This is hard to see in our everyday lives, since we’re nowhere close to knowing everything about the universe at any moment, nor will we ever be—but the equations don't lie.
在我们的日常生活中要理解这一点很难，因为我们无从知晓宇宙中每一刻所发生的全部事件——但是数学方程可不会说谎。
As Einstein put it,"It appears therefore more natural to think of physical reality as a four dimensional existence, instead of, as hitherto, the evolution of a three dimensional existence."
就像爱因斯坦说的：“长久以来，我们都把物质世界看成是一个不断发展的三维存在，但将它看成一个四维存在似乎更为自然一些。”
【知识点讲解】
instead of （用…）代替…， （是…）而不是…， （用…）而不用…；
例句：
Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.
别抱怨不好的事，要对好的事心存感恩。
Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.
他没像平时那样优雅庄重地走着，而是几乎跑了起来。
Small pickling onions can be used instead of sliced ones.
小块腌洋葱可用来替代切片洋葱。
dimensional adj.尺寸的； <物>量纲的； <数>因次的； 维的
例句：
I found the characters very two-dimensional, not to say dull.
我觉得那些人物形象即使不说是乏味无聊，至少也是毫无深度。
There are many ways of generating a two - dimensional representation of an object.
有很多制作物体二维图的方法.
She emerges as a full, three-dimensional character in a way that few horror genre heroines ever do.
她作为一个丰满而又鲜活的人物形象展现在读者面前，之前的恐怖体裁作品中，很少有女主人公给人这种感觉。
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