14. What was chaos theory supposed to do when it was first formulated?

14。混沌理论最初形成的时候，本该是用来做什么的？

His bond with Ao Bing, rooted in their shared destiny as two halves of the Chaos Pearl, is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

他与敖丙的联系源于他们作为混沌珠的两半的共同命运，既温暖又令人心碎。

Eric starts to feel a weird, visceral tangling sensation and becomes slightly disoriented.

Eric 觉得一股奇怪、混沌不明的感觉涌上心头，霎时有点迷失。

As well as being considered unsafe or chaotic, swimming was seen as immodest – shocking because it shows too much of the body.

游泳不仅被认为是危险的或混沌的，还被认为是不庄重的——令人震惊，因为它裸露太多。

Turbulence is a chaotic random motion that occurs in all fluids.

湍流是一种发生在所有流体中的混沌随机运动。

The Babylonians described a monster called Tiamat as the embodiment of chaos.

巴比伦人认为提亚玛特怪兽是混沌的化身。

On the face of it, this was not a turbulent life.

单从表面上看，上述这一切算不上是混沌难驭的人生经历。

In the chaos following the storm, rescuers and parents searched frantically for surviving children.

在风暴之后的混沌中, 救援人员和家长近乎疯狂的找寻幸存的孩子们。

But actually it's a hymn to noisy energy contained by discipline.

但是这实际上是对处于约束状态下的混沌量的赞美诗。

The ability to let go and go with the flow, and to be a flexible operator in a chaotic universe, is what makes us disciples of life.

放手随波逐流，在混沌的宇宙中做一个灵活的操作者的能，正是它们让我们成为生活的门徒。

" They're extremely rational and they're much better in some ways at doing inferential learning" – using patchy information to make accurate generalisations about a messy world – " than any other creature that we know of."

“婴儿非常理性，在某些方面比我们所知的其他生物都更擅长推理学习”——利用零碎的信息对混沌的世界做出准确的概括。

'Cause you look at it and it's just weird, it's jumbled up and hilly and it doesn't make any sense according to most geological activities.

观察会发现，过程完全奇异，跳跃着的，山一般的但又不具备典型的地质特征，完全混沌的。

While he was thus tortured with uncertainty, the sky was overspread with clouds, the day vanished from before him, and a sudden tempest gathered round his head.

正当他百般纠结时，刹那间，天空乌云密布，刚才明晃晃的天空旋即变得晦暗混沌，突如其来的暴雨云团在他头顶上空急遽聚集。

The butterfly effect is a part of chaos theory, suggesting that a small change in one state can result in larger differences in a later state.

蝴蝶效应是混沌理论的一部分，说明一种状态的微小变化可能导致随后状态的巨大变化。

I did think, though—as well as I could in my addled state—and what finally decided me was Annie Wilkes, the psycho nurse in Misery.

可我确实想了——尽我当时的混沌脑袋所能——最后使我下定决心的是安妮·威尔克斯，《米泽丽》里那个神经病护士。

Biographies of Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev abound, but nobody has written seriously about Leonid Brezhnev, on whose watch the Soviet Union sank into drunken decay.

关于斯大林和戈尔巴乔夫的传记汗牛充栋，勃列日涅夫却鲜有人问津，即便他眼睁睁地看着前苏联陷入混沌恍惚的泥潭。

The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground.

打在她脸上的雨珠不是毒蝎，只是普通的雨水而已；混沌中的埃格敦不是什么怪物，只是一片冷漠的空旷之地而已。

It's a lot like the so-called " butterfly effect" — a term coined by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960's to explain chaos theory.

这与所谓的“蝴蝶效应”颇为相似，而“蝴蝶效应”是上世纪60年代气象学家 Edward Lorenz 用来解释混沌理论而创造的词语。

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

美是一种美妙、奇异的东西，艺术家只有通过灵魂的痛苦折磨才能从宇宙的混沌中塑造出来。

The words " Throw it all away" pierced through the enfolding layers of incomprehension to the quick of the Delta's consciousness.

一句“全扔掉”刺透了德尔塔们一重一重混沌的意识，刺痛了他们。