英语听力：2013-09-29 地平线：黑洞吞噬—5

 But that is not the only surprise.

 

People began to realize that these tiny star-like things or they looked like stars are actually putting out as much energy as a hundred of galaxies¹. And they didn’t look like a galaxy² at all. 

 

The paradox³ was how something so small could be so bright. What could possibly produce such a mind-boggling source of power with some of them pumping out more energy than a trillion suns? They were given the name quasars. 

 

Quasars became a very big and deep mystery because they were distant in the universe therefore we were seeing universe as it was billions of years ago. And they were more potent⁴, more luminous⁵ than anything else that we’d come across before. Solving that mystery turned out to be the crucial step on the journey that would eventually lead to our observing the strange behaviour of our own feeding black hole. What was first needed was a math reckon cite from one of modern science’s truly original thinkers.

 

I was thinking about that mystery that’s absolutely true. And there were a number of different ideas that were put forward but none of them was terribly convincing.

1 galaxies   

星系( galaxy的名词复数 )； 银河系； 一群（杰出或著名的人物）

参考例句：

• Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
• We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。

2 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

3 paradox   

n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法；自相矛盾的人(物)

参考例句：

• The story contains many levels of paradox.这个故事存在多重悖论。
• The paradox is that Japan does need serious education reform.矛盾的地方是日本确实需要教育改革。

4 potent   

adj.强有力的，有权势的；有效力的

参考例句：

• The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。
• We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。

5 luminous   

adj.发光的，发亮的；光明的；明白易懂的；有启发的

参考例句：

• There are luminous knobs on all the doors in my house.我家所有门上都安有夜光把手。
• Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.这家商店出售的大多数钟表都涂了发光漆。