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awakening it to flow, to movement, to rhythm, to life.

陽光使空氣開始流動，產生節奏，獲得生命。

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The wind then speaks the message of the sun to the sea and the sea transmits it on through waves.

然后，風把太陽的信息帶給了大海，然后，風把太陽的信息帶給了大海。

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an ancient, exquisite, powerful message.

一個源遠流長、高雅而有力的信息。

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These ocean waves are among the earth's most complicated natural phenomena,

這些海浪屬于地球上最復雜的自然現象。

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The basic features include a crest (the highest point of the wave),

它們的基本特征包括浪峰（波浪的最高點）

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a trough (the lowest point), a height (the vertical distance from the trough to the crest),

波谷（最低點）、浪高（從波谷到浪峰的垂直距離）

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a wave length (the horizontal distance between two wave crests),

波長（兩個浪峰間的水平距離）

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and a period (which is the time it takes a wave crest to travel one wave length).

和周期（浪峰走過一個波長所需的時間）。

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Although an ocean wave gives the impression of a wall of water moving in your direction,

雖然，海浪給人的印象是一堵由水組成的墻向你壓過來，

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in actuality waves move through the water leaving the water about where it was.

而實際上，浪從水中移過，而水則留在原處。

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If the water was moving with the wave,

如果水和浪一起移動的話，

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the ocean and everything on it would be racing in to the shore with obviously catastrophic results.

那么大海和海里所有的東西就會向岸邊疾涌而來，帶來明顯的災難性后果。

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

穿過深水的海浪使水面上的一個微粒按照一種近乎圓形的軌道移動，

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drawing the particle first towards the advancing wave,

先把微粒拉向前移的海浪，

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then up into the wave, then forward with it and then

然后推上波浪，隨著波浪移動，然后

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as the wave leaves the particles behind back to its starting point again.

當波浪把微粒留在身后時又回到出發點。

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From both maturity to death, a wave is subject to the same laws as any other'living'thing.

從成熟到消亡，波浪和其他任何活動中"的東西一樣，都受制于共同的法則。

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For a time it assumes a miraculous individuality that,

一度它獲得非凡的個性，

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in the end, is reabsorbed into the great ocean of life.

但最終又被重新融進生命的大洋。

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The undulating waves of the open sea are generated by three natural causes:

海浪是由三個自然因素形成的：

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wind, earth movements or tremors, and the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun.

風、地球的運動或震顫和月亮、太陽的引力。

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Once waves have been generated,

一旦波浪形成，

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gravity is the force that drives them in a continual attempt to restore the ocean surface to a flat plain.

地球引力是持續不斷企圖使海面復原為平面的力量。

Lesson 41 Training elephants

Two main techniques have been used for training elephants,

馴象有兩種主要的方法，

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which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle.

我們分別稱之為強硬法和溫柔法。

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The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected of him.

強硬法就是驅使象去干活，把它打到順從為止。

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Apart from any moral considerations this is a stupid method of training,

且不說道義問題，這本身就是一種愚蠢的訓練方法，

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for it produces a resentful animal who at a later stage may well turn man-killer.

因為這種方法訓練會使動物反感，在以后某個時期可能會變成傷人的動物。

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The gentle method requires more patience in the early stages, but produces a cheerful,

溫柔法要求在最初階段保持較大的耐心，但這種方法可以訓練出性情愉快、

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good-tempered elephant who will give many years of loyal service.

脾氣溫順、能忠實為人服務多年的大象。