(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

And then he just takes that narrow column of light and he admits it to a prism. And what the prism does is takes a tiny, tiny difference in wavelength and refracts it through a different angle.

他只取了那个窄光柱,然后把它对准一个棱镜，棱镜所做的就是,测量出波长的细微差别,然后从不同的角度测定它的折射度。

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