The trilling wire in the blood sings below inveterate scars appeasing long-forgotten wars.

血液中发着颤音的弦在永不消失的伤疤下歌唱，安抚那早已忘却的战争。

Minstrels strummed on silk-stringed lutes and sang of a love their master had never felt.

艺人们弹拨着缠着丝制弦的琉特琴，歌唱着他们主人从未感受过的爱情。

String theory quickly graduated to a possible theory of everything.

弦理论很快的成为了可能解释一切的理论。

And each cusp looks kind of like a parachute, because it has tiny little strings, called chordae tendineae, coming off of it that tether the cusps to a small muscle called the papillary muscle.

每个尖瓣看起来就像一个降落伞，因为它有很小的弦，叫腱索；腱索将尖瓣连接在一块叫做乳头肌的小肌肉上。

Oh yeah! G-strings! I remember I had to change my G string, on my violin!

是的！遮羞布！我记我换一下我的小提琴上的G弦了！

You can do it on other instruments but on a string instrument it's the difference.

很多乐器都能奏出颤音但弦乐器上　这种揉弦产生的颤音是不一样的。

For very old string theory wormholes, that's the cosmic strings job.

在旧弦理论虫洞中，那是宇宙弦的。

Physics is the harmonies, the harmonies of vibrating strings.

物理是和声振动弦的和声。

He taught himself the first chords and his six-string beauty became his entire world.

他自学了第一和弦，他的六弦之美成了他的整个世界。

Just how changing the length of a string on a guitar changes the sound.

就像改变吉他弦的长度能改变声音一样。

The woman carried in a beautiful harp with strings of gold.

女人拿来了带着金弦的漂亮竖琴。

Some said she lacked the sense to be afraid.

一些人说，马卡姆就是没有害怕的那根弦儿。

You know, I didn't seek out string theory.

其实我也不是生下来就是要研究弦理论的。

When you tighten guitar strings, the note gets higher.

【tighten】把吉他的弦紧一紧，音就会变高。

Each of the spikes attached to the seeds in an ear of barley, wheat or rye has a resonant frequency that depends, like the note plucked from a harp string, on its length.

在大麦、小麦或黑麦的穗中，每一个附着在种子上的穗状物都有一个共振频率，就像从竖琴弦上拨动的音符一样，取决于它的长度。

By saying that particles are not made out of points to make a little bits of string, but it turns out that those theories only usually work if there are not three space dimensions.

粒子不是由点组成的，不是由弦组成的，但实证明，这些理论只有在没有三维空间的情况下才成立。

Excuse me. But if I were to give up on the first little hitch, I never would have been able to identify the fingerprints of string theory in the aftermath of the big bang.

不好意思，如果我第一次受挫就放弃，我就永远不可能在大爆炸理论提出后发现关于弦理论的蛛丝马迹。

On top of that, a violin doesn't have frets like a guitar, so it's much harder to know exactly where to put your fingers on the string to get the right note.

除此之外，小提琴不像吉他那样有音格，所以要知道手指在弦上的确切位置来弹出正确的音符要难多。

Phil was overweight, always wound up and worked too hard. If he wasn't at the office, he was worried about it. He was a natural choice for a heart attack.

菲尔身体胖，弦总是绷紧紧的，工作太卖力。如果他不在办公室，他就放心不下。他是容易患心脏病的那种人。

Kind of like a harp with many, many strings, the fibers near the base of the cochlea are short and stiff, while those at the end are longer and looser.

有点像有很多很多弦的竖琴，耳蜗底部附近的纤维又短又硬，而末端的纤维又长又松。