The most ambitious map in history
史上最宏伟的星图
is taking shape before our eyes.
将在我们眼前展开
And scientists are heading for the edge.
科学家正驶向宇宙的尽头
It may be the strangest map you'll ever see.
这可能是你见过的最神奇的星图
And it's bigger than you can believe.
大到超乎想象
It's a map of the entire universe.
它描绘了整个宇宙
There's this whole pattern to the universe
我们准备绘制出
we're starting to map out.
宇宙的完整形态
Seeing it really brought home
这张星图能让我们
the way the universe actually behaved,
更加了解宇宙运行的规律
in a way that all the numbers and equations never quite could.
这是任何数字和方程都无法做到的
Cosmologists are making sense of startling discoveries.
宇宙学家正在解读这些惊人的发现
Medieval maps would say, "Here be monsters."
中世纪地图将未知地域看作怪物出没地带
They weren't entirely wrong.
他们不完全是错的
They're even building pictures
宇宙学家甚至准备绘制出
of the invisible.
肉眼无法观测到的部分
重点解释:
1.map out 详细制定; 筹划
例句:We spent weeks mapping out our holiday.
我们花了好几个星期筹划如何度假。
2.make sense of 了解 ... 的意义
例句:Can you make sense of what I say?
你能领会我说的意思吗?
3.in a way 在某种程度上
例句:In a way good service sells our products.
良好的售后服务在某种程度上促进了我们产品的销路。