两个世纪过去了,然而波德定律不再那么优雅迷人了。
In the two centuries since, however, Bode's law has fallen from grace.
根据波德定律,行星轨道的空间一定会有某种隐含模式。
According to Bode's law, there is a hidden pattern in the spacing of the orbits of the planets.
波德定律看起来似乎仅仅是一个巧合罢了,一种人类试图为不存在的东西找到合理说法的思维定式。
Bode's law, it seemed, was just a coincidence, an example of the human mind's tendency to find a meaningful pattern where none exists.
同样,从严格理论上的可能性来讲,这种与波德定律相关的观点在一些研究者近几年的研究中得到逐步完善。
Still, the idea that there might be something to Bode's law after all has been advanced by a few researchers in recent years as a serious theoretical possibility.
确实,他们的文章宣布了该发现,提到了发现波德定律的人名(该定则的真实名称是提丢斯-波得定则,提到了波德窃取的这位普鲁士天文学家的思想)。
Indeed, their paper announcing the discovery refers to Bode's law by name (it actually calls it the Titius-Bode law, namechecking the Prussian astronomer whose idea Bode stole).
一些人认为墨菲定律最早是由一位名叫莎德的人提出来的,因此这个定律也应该以他的名字命名。
Some people believe that Murphy's Law was first proposed by a guy named Sod and the law should be called after him accordingly.
阿伏加德罗是一个化学教授,在都灵大学,他做了很多关于气体定律的研究,了解气体微粒,在特定的容量和温度下的数目。
Avogadro was a professor of chemistry at the University of Turin who did a lot of work on gas laws, understanding the number of gas particles in a given volume at a given temperature.
梅特卡夫博士很高兴安德鲁·奥德雷兹科和本杰明•太雷两位学者在2005年出版的一篇文章中对“梅特卡夫定律”的驳斥。
Dr Metcalfe delights in a paper published in 2005 by two academics, Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly, that presents a detailed refutation of his law.
杰拉尔德·温伯格在其经典著作《程序开发心理学》中对布鲁克斯定律作出了颇具后见之名的重要修正。
Gerald Weinberg's classic The Psychology of Computer Programming supplied what, in hindsight, we can see as a vital correction to Brooks.
有机化学中的伍德沃—霍夫曼定律(由霍夫曼和罗伯特·伯恩斯·伍德沃发现)可以预测某些分子中原子排列位置。
Organic chemistry's woodward-hoffmann rules (which Hoffmann developed with Robert Burns Woodward) predict the positions of atoms within certain kinds of molecules.
在图书馆人员的培训过程中引入“彼德原理”和“逐渐趋于保守定律”具有重要作用。
It is of great significance to introduce "the Peter Principle" and "the Law of Increasing Conservatism" in training librarians, but there exist some negative effects.
指出范德瓦耳斯气体与经典理想气体一样,也与热力学第三定律不相容。
It is pointed out that the van der Waals gas is also incompatible with the third law of thermodynamics as the classical ideal gas.
列表4演示了对一个表达式德摩根定律的应用。
Listing 4 illustrates the application of DE Morgan's laws to an expression.
罗德胤:娘欧码头的折线步道,再次说明了设计领域里一个永恒但又难以把控的“定律”——适当的反差,恰恰是更高层次的和谐。
LUO Deyin: the zigzag footpath at Niang 'ou Terminal once again proves an everlasting but hard-to-control "law" in the design field-appropriate contrast is actually harmony at a higher level.
罗德胤:娘欧码头的折线步道,再次说明了设计领域里一个永恒但又难以把控的“定律”——适当的反差,恰恰是更高层次的和谐。
LUO Deyin: the zigzag footpath at Niang 'ou Terminal once again proves an everlasting but hard-to-control "law" in the design field-appropriate contrast is actually harmony at a higher level.
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