SSS 2010-06-29
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(六)月
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
Those of you following the World Cup know that at this stage there can be no more draws. Ties are broken during overtime 1 play, or in a penalty kick shootout in which a goalkeeper’s ability to anticipate the ball’s flight can mean the difference between victory and elimination 2. Now, scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic 3 Institute have discovered how a kicker’s body can betray whether he’s aiming left or right.
In a penalty shot, it’s kicker versus 4 goalkeeper. And with the shooter standing 5 just 12 yards from the goal, that ball can touch net in about half a second. That’s faster than a keeper can launch himself from the goal’s center to either post. Which means that a goalkeeper has to start moving before the kicker’s foot meets the ball. And he has to guess correctly which way to dive.
To figure out how good goalies might up their odds 6, scientists attached motion detectors 7 to college-level penalty kickers. And they found a handful of indicators 8 that reliably predict kick direction, such as the angle of the kicker’s hips 9 and how he plants his supporting foot.
Good goalies may be able to read those subtle cues. Meaning that they use their hands, and their heads.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin.
- They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
- He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。
- Their elimination from the competition was a great surprise.他们在比赛中遭到淘汰是个很大的意外。
- I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals.我在400米半决赛中被淘汰。
- She was trained as a teacher at Manchester Polytechnic.她在曼彻斯特工艺专科学校就读，准备毕业后做老师。
- When he was 17,Einstein entered the Polytechnic Zurich,Switzerland,where he studied mathematics and physics.17岁时，爱因斯坦进入了瑞士苏黎士的专科学院，学习数学和物理学。
- The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
- The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
- Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？
- The report advocated that all buildings be fitted with smoke detectors. 报告主张所有的建筑物都应安装烟火探测器。
- This is heady wine for experimenters using these neutrino detectors. 对于使用中微子探测器的实验工作者，这是令人兴奋的美酒。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技
- The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
- It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。