这是一部有关现代科学发展史的既通俗易懂又引人入胜的书，作者用清晰明了、幽默风趣的笔法，将宇宙大爆炸到人类文明发展进程中所发生的繁多妙趣横生的故事一一收入笔下。惊奇和感叹组成了本书，历历在目的天下万物组成了本书，益于人们了解大千世界的无穷奥妙，掌握万事万物的发展脉络。
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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,根据上下文注意各句标号。



Still unaware of what caused the noise, Wilson and Penzias phoned Dicke at Princeton and described their problem to him in the hope that he might find a solution. Dicke realized at once what the two young men had found. [---1---]

Soon afterward the Astrophysical Journal published two articles: one by Penzias and Wilson describing their experience with the hiss, the other by Dicke's team explaining its nature. [---2---] The Princeton researchers got only sympathy. According to Dennis Overbye in Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos , neither Penzias nor Wilson altogether understood the significance of what they had found until they read about it in the New York Times .

[---3---] Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1% of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. [---4---]

"Well, boys, we've just been scooped," he told his colleagues as he hung up the phone. Although Penzias and Wilson had not been looking for cosmic background radiation, didn't know what it was when they had found it, and hadn't described or interpreted its character in any paper, they received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
译文 　　彭齐亚斯和威尔逊仍然找不到噪声的原因，便打电话给普林斯顿大学的迪克，向他描述了他们遇到的问题，希望他能作出一种解释。迪克马上意识到两位年轻人发现了什么。"哎呀，好家伙，人家抢在我们前面了。"他一面挂电话，一面对他的同事们说。 　　此后不久，《天体物理学》杂志刊登了两篇文章：一篇为彭齐亚斯和威尔逊所作，描述了听到咝咝声的经历；另一篇为迪克小组所作，解释了它的性质。尽管彭齐亚斯和威尔逊并不是在寻找宇宙的本底辐射，发现的时候也不知道是什么东西，也没有发表任何论文来描述或解释它的性质，但他们获得了1978年诺贝尔物理学奖。普林斯顿大学的研究人员只获得了同情。据丹尼斯•奥弗比在《宇宙孤心》一文中说，彭齐亚斯和威尔逊都不清楚自己这一发现的重要意义，直到看到《纽约时报》上的一篇报道。 　　顺便说一句，来自宇宙本底辐射的干扰，我们大家都经历过。把你的电视机调到任何接收不着信号的频道，你所看到的锯齿形静电中，大约有1％是由这种古老的大爆炸残留物造成的。记住，下次你抱怨接收不到图像的时候，你总能观看到宇宙的诞生。