It looks at the moment as if quarks and electrons are point-like particles.

当时，看上去就好像夸克和电子都是粒子。

The fundamental particles, instead of being point-like objects are now thought of as being string-like objects.

基本粒子不是作为物体来考虑，而是看做弦物体。

What we mean by it is a sort of blocky blobby thingy, not its technical name.

我们所说它是一种块斑东西，而不是它技术名称。

But no matter how remote or small an island is, animals have somehow conquered the massive ocean barrier to reach these specks of land.

但不管一个岛何偏远和微小，动物们总有办法克服广阔海洋障碍，到达这些陆地。

Leopard stared, and Ethiopian stared, but all they could see were stripy shadows and blotched shadows in the forest, but never a sign of Zebra and Giraffe.

豹子瞪着眼睛， 埃塞俄比亚人也瞪着眼睛， 但他们只能看到森林中条纹阴影和斑阴影， 却看不到斑马和长颈鹿踪迹。

I got a really terrible spray tan once and it was patchy and my foundation was white and my body was orange and I just looked absolutely horrible.

有一次我被喷成了非常糟糕棕褐色皮肤，皮肤呈斑，我粉底是白色，我身体是橙色，我看起来简直糟透了。

All sorts of weeds and herbs and flowers had grown up there; splotches of wild larkspur, pale green-and-white spikes of hoarhound, plantations of wild cotton, tangles of foxtail and wild wheat.

那里长满了各种杂草、香草和鲜花。斑野生飞燕草、浅绿色和白色尖刺犬、野生棉花种植园、一团团狐尾草和野生小麦。

No, —I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.

不，——我夸大了；我从没想过她有什么神圣美德：这更像是她留下一种香水；麝香和琥珀香味，而不是圣洁气味。