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【篇一】Lesson40
Waves
Waves are the children of the struggle between ocean and atmosphere, the ongoing signatures of infinity. Rays
from the sun excite and energize the atmosphere of the earth, awakening it to flow, to movement, to rhythm, to
life. The wind then speaks the message of the sun to the sea and the sea transmits it on through waves – and
ancient, exquisite, powerful message.
These ocean waves are among the earth’s most complicated natural phenomena. The basic features
include a crest ( the highest point of the wave), a trough (the lowest point), a height (the vertical distance from
the trough to the crest), a wave length (the horizontal distance between two wave crests), and a period(which is
the time it takes a wave crest to travel one wave length).
Although an ocean wave gives the impression of a wall of water moving in your direction, in actuality
waves move through the water leaving the water about where it was. If the water was moving with the wave,
the ocean and everything on it would be racing in to the shore with obviously catastrophic results.
An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular
orbit, drawing the particle first towards the advancing wave, then up into the wave, then forward with it and
then – as the wave leaves the particles behind – back to its starting point again.
From both maturity to death, a wave is subject to the same laws as any other ‘living’ thing. For a time it
assumes a miraculous individuality that, in the end, is reabsorbed into the great ocean of life.
The undulating waves of the open sea are generated by three natural causes: wind, earth movements of
tremors, and the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun. Once waves have bean generated, gravity is the
force that drives them in a continual attempt to restore the ocean surface to a flat plain.
【篇二】
New words and expressions 生詞(ci)和短(duan)語(yu)
signature
n. 簽名，標記
infinity
n. 無窮
ray
n. 光線
energize
v. 給與...能量
rhythm
n. 節奏
transmit
v. 傳送
exquisite
adj. 高雅的
phenomena
n. 現象
crest
n. 浪峰
trough
n. 波谷
vertical
adj. 垂(chui)直的
horizontal
adj. 水平的
actuality
n. 現實
catastrophic
adj. 大(da)災(zai)難的
particle
n. 微粒
maturity
n. 成熟
undulate
v. 波動，形成波浪
tremor
n. 震顫
gravitational
adj. 地(di)心(xin)吸力(li)的
【篇三】參考譯文
海(hai)(hai)浪是(shi)大(da)(da)海(hai)(hai)和空(kong)氣(qi)相斗的產物，無限的一(yi)種不間(jian)斷的標志。太(tai)陽光刺激了地球的大(da)(da)氣(qi)層，并給(gei)予(yu)它能量(liang);陽光使空(kong)氣(qi)開始流(liu)動，產生節奏，獲得生命(ming)。然(ran)后，風把太(tai)陽的住處帶(dai)給(gei)了大(da)(da)海(hai)(hai)，海(hai)(hai)洋用波浪的形式傳遞這個信息(xi) -- 一(yi)個源過(guo)流(liu)長、高雅而有力的信息(xi)。
這些海(hai)浪(lang)屬(shu)于地球上最(zui)復雜的(de)自然(ran)現象。它們(men)的(de)基本特征(zheng)包括浪(lang)峰(波浪(lang)的(de)點(dian))、波谷(gu)(最(zui)低點(dian))、浪(lang)高(從波谷(gu)到浪(lang)峰的(de)垂直距離)、波長(兩(liang)個浪(lang)峰間的(de)水(shui)平距離)和周期(海(hai)峰走過一個波長所需的(de)時(shi)間)。雖然(ran)，海(hai)浪(lang)給(gei)人的(de)印象是(shi)一堵由水(shui)組成的(de)墻向你(ni)壓(ya)過來，而(er)實際上，浪(lang)從水(shui)中移(yi)過，而(er)水(shui)則留在原處。如果(guo)(guo)水(shui)和浪(lang)一起移(yi)動(dong)的(de)話，那么大海(hai)和海(hai)里所有的(de)東(dong)西就(jiu)會向岸(an)邊(bian)疾涌過來，帶來明顯的(de)災(zai)難(nan)性后果(guo)(guo)。
穿過深水的海浪(lang)(lang)(lang)使水面上的一個(ge)微(wei)粒(li)按照(zhao)一種近乎(hu)圓形的軌(gui)道移(yi)動(dong)(dong)，先(xian)把微(wei)粒(li)拉向前移(yi)動(dong)(dong)的海浪(lang)(lang)(lang)，然(ran)后(hou)(hou)推上波(bo)(bo)浪(lang)(lang)(lang)，隨著波(bo)(bo)浪(lang)(lang)(lang)移(yi)動(dong)(dong)，然(ran)后(hou)(hou) -- 當波(bo)(bo)浪(lang)(lang)(lang)把微(wei)粒(li)留在(zai)身(shen)后(hou)(hou)時 -- 又(you)回到出發(fa)點。
從成熟到消亡，波浪和其他任何(he)“活動中(zhong)”的(de)東(dong)西一(yi)樣(yang)，都受制于共同的(de)法(fa)則。一(yi)度它獲得非凡的(de)個性，但(dan)最(zui)終(zhong)又被重新融進生命的(de)大洋。
公海(hai)上起伏的(de)波(bo)浪是由3個自然因素構成的(de)：風、地球(qiu)的(de)運動或震顫和月(yue)亮、太陽的(de)引力。一旦波(bo)浪形(xing)成，地球(qiu)引力是持續不斷企(qi)圖(tu)使海(hai)面(mian)復(fu)原為平面(mian)的(de)力量。
