I'm too far down the proverbial rabbit hole to be able to turn back, so part of me knows this is a permanent shift of some sort.

我已经沿着众所周知的路越走越远，直至难以回头，部分自我告诉自己这只是某种程度上的永久性转移。

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The discovery could help sort out the fates of many other stars with masses close to the black hole threshold.

这些发现可以帮助寻找出许多其它质量接近黑洞阙值的星体的情况。

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No sir! But the Manchester City I joined was a hole-in-the-sock sort of club.

但是，天哪，我现在加入的曼城是一个袜子有洞的俱乐部。

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When this sort of star implodes, to create a black hole, it generates jets of material that punch their way out of the collapsing mass at near light-speed, to produce extremely high-energy emissions of light.

BBC: Telescope spies cataclysmic blast

We're nowhere near the top of the hole, but we are scrambling up the side now, and we can sort of see light way up there.

NPR: Housing Market Recovers Though Economy Lags Behind

It's sort of like being the only intermediate skier on a double black diamond trail in Vail or Jackson Hole.

WSJ: Park Filmmakers Wing It