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【万物简史】PART III CH 11马斯特·马克的夸克（16）

听力简介：

人们当时对宇宙的有限理解，使得解释的空间仍然有很多。这是因为天文学研究费时费财力，人们被迫（或者说是愿意）从有限的数据中去得出一套套的理论~~~

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文中需听写单词或词组用[-No-]表示，句子用[---No---]表示。请边听写边理解文意，这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~

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The difficulty in making final determinations is that there are often acres of room for interpretation. Imagine standing in a field at night and trying to decide how far away two distant electric lights are. [---1---] But what you can’t be certain of is whether the nearer light is, let us say, a 58-watt bulb that is 122 feet away or a 61-watt light that is 119 feet, 8 inches away. [-2-] you must make allowances for distortions caused by variations in the Earth’s atmosphere, by intergalactic dust, contaminating light from foreground stars, and many other factors. [---3---] There is also the problem that access to telescopes is always [-4-] and historically measuring red shifts has been notably costly in telescope time. It could take all night to get a single exposure. [---5---] In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "[-6-]." Or as Martin Rees has put it: "Our present satisfaction [with our state of understanding] may reflect the paucity of the data rather than the excellence of the theory."