休斯博士说，球状闪电似乎是个明显的解释。
Ball lightning seems an obvious explanation, says Dr Hughes.
球状闪电是一种奇怪的闪电类型。
当微波源被关闭后，天然的球状闪电能持续更多秒。
这使得球状闪电理论的提出者所面临的一个问题凸显出来。
This highlights a problem faced by people proposing theories of ball lightning .
然而，他自信最终有人将在实验室创出真实，长时有效的球状闪电。
However, heis confident that, eventually, someone will recreate real, long-livedball-lightning in the laboratory.
有时，球状闪电在地上滚动，发出巨大的声响，直到碰到树木或高墙为止。
Ball lightning sometimes rolls along the ground until it crashes into a tree or high wall.
球状闪电通常是在暴风雨时所报道的，人们知道，许多连续不断的雷击可以产生很强的磁场。
Ball lightning is often reported during thunderstorms, and it's known that multiple consecutive lightning strikes can create strong magnetic fields.
同时他期盼创造出来的球状闪电能像其被预计那样展现其自然本性而不会先把人杀死。
And when they do he expects this to reveal itstrue nature without, it is to be hoped, killing anybody first.
事实上，这对夫妻，认为几乎全部报道过的球状闪电中的一半竟然是磁性在人的心目中的所构成的骗局。
In fact, the pair thinks about half of all ball lightning reports are actually tricks of the mind induced by magnetism.
一项新的研究表明，称为球状闪电的、神秘光的浮动斑点，也许只是大脑简单地受到了过度刺激所产生的幻觉。
Mysterious floating blobs of light known as ball lightning might simply be hallucinations caused by overstimulated brains, a new study suggests.
他对于军事研究持怀疑的态度——本质不过是研究怎样精确而专业的杀人——在球状闪电中得到了体现。
His skepticism about military research - which is essentially about inventing ways to kill people precisely and professionally - came through in the novel Ball Lightning.
澳大利亚天体物理学家斯蒂芬·休斯称球状闪电和其他大气现象可以解释人们看到一些不明飞行物（UFO）现象。
Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, claims Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes.
其次，有些目击者报告的那些球状闪电包含了近距离观察，有的详细介绍了球的内部结构，而且甚至还关联着气味和声响。
Some reports of ball lightning even involve multiple eyewitnesses who saw the same phenomenon from different angles and saw the balls travel in the same directions.
故事始于2006年，此时Jerby博士和Dikhtyar博士正设法在实验室中创造出像火球一样的球状闪电。
The story began in 2006, when DrJerby and Dr Dikhtyar managed to create ball-lightning-like fireballs in theirlaboratory.
就现有的物理学定律，我们很难理解球状闪电存在的原因，而这可能也是长期以来科学家忽视球状闪电的主要原因。
Under the current laws of physics, it is difficult to understand how it could exist. And this is probably the main reason scientists dismissed it for so long.
Messrs Jerby，Dikhtyar, Mitchell和他们同事的最新工作并不是证明天然的球状闪电由硅纳米分子组成。
The new work by...... is not proof that naturalball-lightning consists of silicon nanoparticles. For one thing,...For another....Moreover
成千的人宣称曾看到过球状闪电——那是一个白热的大致球状的光球，通常在雷暴雨中出现——但是对于球状闪电的细节部分的描述却是千变万化。
Thousands of people claim to have seen ball-lightning—glowing, roughlyspherical balls of light, usually produced around the time of athunderstorm—but the details of these sightings vary enormously.
他也不相信幻觉能对所有的球状闪电可以做出解释。“虽然幻觉可以解释某些情况，可是球状闪电仍然在自然界和实验室里是可以实现的”，丘比在一封电子信件中说。
"While hallucinations could explain some cases, the effect of ball lightning is yet feasible in both nature and the laboratory," Jerby said in an email.
这个小小的球状体的身体外壳上有着上千条细小的发丝，叫做纤毛，推进它以闪电般的速度穿行于淡水泡沫中。
This little spheroid sports thousands of tiny hairs around the outer edge of its body called cilia that propel it at lightning speeds through freshwater scum.
这个小小的球状体的身体外壳上有着上千条细小的发丝，叫做纤毛，推进它以闪电般的速度穿行于淡水泡沫中。
This little spheroid sports thousands of tiny hairs around the outer edge of its body called cilia that propel it at lightning speeds through freshwater scum.
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