Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, and Brian Schmidt are the recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery in 1998 of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

今年的诺贝尔物理学奖的获得者是在1998年发现宇宙加速膨胀的萨尔·波尔马特、亚当·里斯和布莱恩·施密特。

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The discovery of the expansion of our Universe was already noticed by astronomer Hubble a long time ago in 1929, forcing Einstein to revise his famous equations about space, time and masses.

早在1929年，宇宙正在膨胀这一现象就已被天文学家哈勃所注意到，这让爱因斯坦不得不修改了他那项关于空间、时间和质量的著名方程式。

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EXAMPLE: After a brief recession, the country's economy experienced a major expansion due to increased productivity and the discovery of new cheap energy sources.

在短期的衰退之后，由于生产力的提高和发现了廉价新能源，这个国家的经济经历了一次大扩张。

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Riess shared this year's prize with with fellow American Saul Perlmutter and the Australian Brian Schmidt for the discovery, back in 1998, that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.

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