As early as the 7th century B.C., people used simple magnifying glasses to concentrate the light of the sun into beams so hot they would cause wood to catch fire.

早在公元前7世纪，人们就利用简单的放大镜将阳光集成一束，利用热量点燃木材。

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It takes an infrared view to catch the light from these shrouded regions and reveal the earliest stages of star formation.

要用红外光来从这些迷蒙的区域捕捉光并揭示造星的早期阶段。

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You could catch a ball, hum a tune, stop at a red light - act exactly like a person but without any sense of what it is like to be alive.

你可以接住一个球，哼个小曲并可以在红灯前停下来—看起来就像所有有感觉的人一样，而事实上你的身体又没有任何感觉。

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Because the rims of these craters catch rays of light from the sun, this may provide sufficient illumination for the spectrometer to detect frozen water.

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Tubes at the top and bottom are intended to catch these flashes of light and tell scientists both the location and the intensity of the interactions.

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Let's jump back a few hours and catch some of that evening light.

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