Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this.

即使是仅仅参加过学校足球赛的人也有种体会。

For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market.

比如说，亚历克斯。奥，一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士，已经在台湾建厂，对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。

if you think what it must be like to share the deck of a ship with several squadrons of jet aircraft,

因此，如果你能想像出同在一个甲板上是什么滋味儿的话，和几个中队的喷气机。

The continents form rugged tablelands which stand nearly three miles above the floor of the open ocean.

大陆是崎岖不平的高地，高出辽阔海洋海底近三英里。

and if a single curved glass would distort nature, how much more would a pair of them?

何况一片曲面镜就可歪曲自然，那么伽利略的两片曲面镜对自然的歪曲又该多大呢？

An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular orbit,

穿过深水的海浪使水面上的一个微粒按照一种近乎圆形的轨道移动，