Lesson 40

Waves

Waves are the children of the struggle between ocean and atmosphere, the ongoing signatures of infinity.
波浪是海洋与大气之间斗争的产物，是无限的持续标志。
Rays from the sun excite and energize the atmosphere of the earth, awakening it to flow, to movement, to rhythm, to life.
来自太阳的射线激发并赋予地球的大气层能量，唤醒它去流动、去运动、去律动、去拥有生命。
The wind then speaks the message of the sun to the sea and the sea transmits it on through waves—an ancient, exquisite, powerful message.
风随后将太阳的信息传达给大海，而大海通过波浪将其传递下去——这是一个古老、精致且强有力的信息。
These ocean waves are among the earth’s most complicated natural phenomena.
这些海洋波浪是地球上最复杂的自然现象之一。
The basic features include a crest (the highest point of the wave), a trough (the lowest point), a height (the vertical distance from the trough to the crest), a wave length (the horizontal distance between two wave crests), and a period (which is the time it takes a wave crest to travel one wave length).
基本特征包括波峰（波的最高点）、波谷（最低点）、高度（从波谷到波峰的垂直距离）、波长（两个波峰之间的水平距离）以及周期（波峰传播一个波长所需的时间）。
Although an ocean wave gives the impression of a wall of water moving in your direction, in actuality waves move through the water leaving the water about where it was.
尽管海浪给人一种水墙向你方向移动的印象，但实际上波浪是在水中穿行，而水体几乎留在了原处。
If the water was moving with the wave, the ocean and everything on it would be racing in to the shore with obviously catastrophic results.
如果水随着波浪移动，海洋及其上的一切将会伴随着明显的灾难性后果奔涌向海岸。
An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular orbit, drawing the particle first towards the advancing wave, then up into the wave, then forward with it and then—as the wave leaves the particles behind—back to its starting point again.
穿过深水的海洋波浪导致表面的粒子在大致圆形的轨道上运动，先将粒子拉向前进的波浪，然后向上进入波浪，接着随波浪向前，最后——随着波浪将粒子留在身后——回到其起始点。
From both maturity to death, a wave is subject to the same laws as any other living thing.
从成熟到死亡，波浪受制于与任何其他生物相同的规律。
For a time it assumes a miraculous individuality that, in the end, is reabsorbed into the great ocean of life.
有一段时间，它呈现出一种奇迹般的个性，最终又被重新吸收进伟大的生命之海。
The undulating waves of the open sea are generated by three natural causes: wind, earth movements or tremors, and the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun.
开阔海域的起伏波浪是由三种自然原因产生的：风、地壳运动或震动，以及月球和太阳的引力。
Once waves have been generated, gravity is the force that drives them in a continual attempt to restore the ocean surface to a flat plain.
一旦波浪产生，重力就是驱动它们持续尝试将海洋表面恢复为平坦平面的力量。