||1:IN MARCH Chao-Lin Kuo, an astrophysicist at Stanford University, filmed himself knocking on the door of his colleague Andrei Linde.||2:In the 1980s Dr Linde was one of several cosmologists who developed the theory of cosmic inflation, which holds that, in the first instants of its existence, the universe underwent a brief period of faster-than-light expansion.

||1:三月，斯坦福大学天体物理学家郭兆林拍下了自己造访同事Andrei Linde的一幕。||2:上世纪80年代，Linden博士是少有的几位发展了宇宙膨胀论的宇宙学家。宇宙膨胀论认为，在其出现的那一瞬间，宇宙经历了一段超光速膨胀。

||1:Rowing back on a triumphant announcement about the first instants of creation may be a little embarrassing, but the saga is a useful reminder of how science works.||2:There is no suggestion that anyone has behaved dishonourably.||3:Admittedly, the BICEP team's original press conference looks, with hindsight, seriously overconfident.||4:More information-sharing between the various gravitational wave-hunters, all of whom guard their data jealously, might have helped tone down the triumphalism.||5:But science, ideally, proceeds by exactly this sort of good-faith argument and honourable squabbling—until the weight of evidence forces one side to admit defeat.

||1:收回早期的胜利宣言可能有点尴尬，但是这个冒险非常恰当地提醒了我们，科学工作者的工作方式。||2:没人会觉得谁的表现有愧其身份。||3:固然，BICEP小组最初的新闻发布会，事后来看，过度自信了。||4:在各种引力波守望者当中共享贡多信息可能有助于缓和这种胜利主义，可惜他们都视自己的数据如命根子。||5:但是，想象中的科学，正是通过这种善意的争论和尊重彼此的吵闹，直到证据的分量迫使一方承认失败。

That is much more than other instants , but much less than a cup of coffee at one of Starbucks' stores.

这比其他速溶咖啡贵很多 ，但远远低于任何一个星巴克的门店的一杯咖啡。

Joda classes that represent immutable instants in time are subclasses of this one.

表示时间上的不可变瞬间的Joda类都属于这个类的子类。

A few instants passed, and he found that Tess was gone.

过了一会儿，他发现苔丝已经走了。

ideal instants of modulation

调制理想瞬间

ideal instants of a modulation

调制的理想瞬间

ideal instants of a restitution

解调的理想瞬间