Lane was speaking now as someone does who has been monopolizing conversation for a good quarter of an hour or so and who believes he has just hit a stride where his voice can do absolutely no wrong.

莱恩说着话，就像是在掌控着那对话,长达大概十五分钟,他相信，在那,他的声音是绝对正确的，我经常读到。

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We just want to know when he's going to hit the pavement, and with what speed.

我们只关心他什么时候摔到人行道上,以及他落地时的速度

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But he also realized that when they did hit something what they hit what unbelievably massive but also that that mass was concentrated So eventually, this is what we have come to call the nucleus of an atom.

碰到的一定是十分重的东西,而且那些质量,要聚集在非常非常小的空间内,这个就是我们称作,原子核的东西。

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What happened in that case is he has learned that the raising of a hand is a signal that he is about to be hit and so he responds to that signal.

在这个例子中，他知道,举起的手臂是他即将挨打的信号,因此他对这个信号作出了反应。

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