So if you're going to get past five, then you're going to want to say five times rather than try to say quintupler or sextuple.

所以如果你要说超过五的倍，那么你要说 five times，而不是 quintupler 或 sextuple。

But can we blame those who looked and failed to see what Galileo saw, if we remember that to use a telescope at the limit of its powers calls for long experience and intimate familiarity with one's instrument?

但我们怎么能去责备观察了天空但没有看到伽利略所看到的东西的那些人呢？如果我们想到，使用一架倍有限的望远镜需要长期的经验和对自己仪器的熟悉程度的话？

Have a go. See if I'm right Is it a multiple of 13?

试试看 我说得对不对是不是13的倍？

So these fingers represent a different dimension — multiples of five.

因此，这些手指代不同的维度——5 的倍。

Try 7. Is it a multiple of 7?

七吧 试一试七吧 是不是七的倍？

Now, let's find the least common multiple of 36 and 90.

现在我们来求 36 和 90 的最小公倍。

At this magnification, the diameter of a human hair would be about that size.

在这个放大倍下，人的头发直径大约有这么大。

All right, I'm not sure if you remember, but I definitely remember, we had information about the atomic bomb and Hiroshima, and I definitely remember times and times in our column.

好的，我不确定你是否记得，但我绝对记得我们有关于原子弹和广岛的信息，我绝对记得我们的栏目中的倍。

We say " four minutes past" , " six minutes past" and we drop minutes with the fives: " five past" , " twenty past" .

我们会说“four minutes past”几点过四分，“six minutes past”几点过六分；但是，如果分钟是5的倍时，我们不会加minutes。

That's a useful starting place because we now know that any viable offering to the sea monsters must be a multiple of 1001.

这个信息非常重要，现在我们道任何一个能满足海怪们要求的字必须是 1001 的倍。

Now, just to put that into perspective, that's about 400 times fewer than the best estimates of how many intelligent extraterrestrial life forms there are.

我们好好思考一下这件事，在无聪明外星生命形式存在的情况下，那是少于 400 倍的估计呀。

I usually just say it went up, you know, a certain amount of times, like if it went up 10 times or something like that.

我通常就说它增长了， 你道的，增长了一定的倍， 比如增长了10倍之类的。

The resulting gap is called the Kirkwood Gap, and there are several such asteroid deserts, all with simple multiples of Jupiter's period.

由此产生的偏移空隙被称为柯克伍德空隙，还有几个像这样的小行星沙漠带，都是木星公转周期的小倍。

There are quests every 50 levels and you can play competitively against your also not extinct friends on Facebook through their leaderboards.

每达到 50 级的倍级时，你可以还没有灭绝的好友对决，你可以在脸书上查看他们排行榜排名。

Now let's bump it up to 3x, oh yes, things are getting closer now, but it still comes out ahead.

现在让我们将倍提高到 3 倍，哦，是的，事情变得更接近了，但它仍然领先。

It's actually two -- one for the most twins and one for the most multiples in the same class.

实际上是两个，一个是双胞胎，一个是同一个班级的倍。

Biologists call this the quarter-power scaling principle, for different sized animals, measures of metabolism scale in multiples of one-fourth.

生物家称之为四分之一幂标度原理，对于不同大小的动物，用四分之一的倍来衡量代谢标度。

And we talked about how to just, how to compare multiples of something.

我们讨论了如何比较事物的倍。

A powerful spyglass to his eye, he scrutinized every point of the horizon with the utmost care.

他拿一架倍很大的望远镜，十分细心地观察四周的天边、观察过后。

If something increases by a factor of a certain number, it becomes multiplied that many times.

如果某物翻了某一字那么多倍，那它就是成那么多倍地增加。