stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it;

更为奇怪的是，她把肘部在儿童玩的“罗托”纸牌上移动一下，便能说出印在纸牌上的数字和颜色。

either from gas or water, is pushing it.

这种巨大的压力来自地下天然气或水。

It is difficult for any of us in moments of intense aesthetic experience to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and, because the experience is intensely movi

我们似乎瞥见从另一个世界射向我们的一线光芒，那个世界不仅不同于我们这个世界，而且由于美感的强烈感染，在某些方面比我们这个世界更美好。

In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of violent controversy;

伽利略在世时是激烈论战的中心。

2 'It's possible, but not worth doing.'

二、 可能，但不值得做。"

and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.

剩下的一半人再过700年，才会又减少一半。