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

问题14。 混沌理论首次提出时被用来做什么？

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

2 地空虚混沌．渊面黑暗．　神的灵运行在水面。

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混沌珠的两半的共同命运，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、混沌不明的感觉涌心头，霎时有点迷失。

The adventure begins when a wicked, bodybuilding dragon named Dragaux throws the world into chaos.

冒险开始，一条名Dragaux的健身恶龙让世界陷入混沌。

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

游泳不仅被认危险的或混沌的，还被认不庄重的——令人震惊，因它裸露太多。

We do believe that at the beginning of time, there was chaos.

我们确实相信时间的起源一片混沌。

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

巴比伦人认提亚玛特怪兽混沌的化身。

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

单从表面看，述这一切算不混沌难驭的人生经历。

Their words and, in his ribs, the sharp nudging of elbows, broke through his unawareness.

两人的话语和使劲抵在他肋骨的手肘把他从混沌里惊醒了过来。

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.

但这实际处于约束状态下的混沌力量的赞美诗。

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力，正它们让我们成生活的门徒。

And a lot of this theory from probability to statistics and actually more recently things like game theory and chaos theory originated with studying games of chance, so I think science actually has benefitted a lot from people's curiosity about gambling.

而实际从这种概率论到统计学，再到最近的博弈理论及混沌理论都来源于研究赌博游戏的获胜几率，因此我认科学从人们赌博所产生的好奇心理中受益。

" 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任何其他生物都更擅长推理学习”——利用零碎的信息混沌的世界做出准确的概括。

Gravity also plays a role on the grandest of stages, because across the universe, from the smallest mote of dust to the most massive star, gravity is the great sculptor that created order out of chaos.

在最宏大的宇宙舞台，引力同样万众瞩目的角色，整个世界中，无论微小的尘埃还庞大的恒星，都在引力这位雕刻师的手下由混沌变得有序。

'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任何典型的地质特征，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安妮·威尔克斯，《米泽丽》里那个神经病护士。