It gets its name from white light, which contains all the visible color wavelengths.

它得名于白光，白光包含所有可见的颜色波长。

Some are tiny, barely visible points. Others radiate strong white light.

有些小到难以看见，另些则发出强烈的白光。

Slowly, the white light began to change. It began to form shapes.

慢慢地，白光开始有了变化。

However, that white light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow.

然而，白光是由彩虹的所有颜色组成的。

A pure white light seemed to come from deep inside the diamond.

钻石深处似乎射出了道纯净的白光。

These colors can be revealed when white light goes through a prism.

当白光穿过棱镜的，些颜色可以显示出来。

Meaning focused white light… that takes a little heat off the environment.

表明聚焦白光可以消耗环境中的热量。

White light is only pure until we crack it open.

白光只有在我们打开它之前才是纯粹的。

With a prism or a drop of water, white light shows what really is within it.

用棱镜或滴水，白光就能显示出它的真实面目。

On the opposite side of School Yard, the fifty-two stories of Lupton's Tower gleamed white in the sunshine.

校园对面五十二层楼的路普顿大厦在太阳中闪着白光。

Well it's pretty elementary physics, really. It teaches them about how white light or ordinary light is made up.

是普通物理学，告诉他们白光或普通光是如何形成的。

Because it glows a dull white, the ancient Greeks called it Galaxius, or “milky”.

因为它发出暗淡的白光，所以古希腊人称它为“银河”或“乳白色的河”。

We don't want to use any other type of white light that could disorient them or confuse them.

我们不想使用任何其他类型的白光，会令它们迷失方向或造成种迷惑。

Our perception of white light is wrong and oversimplified, but good enough for us to function.

我们对于白光的感知不仅错误，而且还过于简单，可对我们而言，足够用了。

We call ordinary sunlight white light, but it actually includes all the colors of visible light.

我们把普通的太阳光叫做白光，但是它实际上包括了可见光的所有颜色。

She saw the little group on the grass, their faces and hands white in the moonlight.

她看见了草地上的那小群人，他们的脸和手在月光下泛着白光。

Then, you looked at the white screen. That white light included all of colors and wavelengths of visible light.

然后，你看着白色的屏幕。那白光包括所有颜色和可见光波长。

Consequently, I had begun to grope my way when suddenly I saw the glow of an intense white light.

所以我只能摸索着走，我看见道相当明亮的白光忽然闪出来。

If you see light from the Sun hitting the ground, it probably looks like plain white light.

如果你看到来自太阳的光照射到地面，它可能看起来像普通的白光。

But like the model of the body, or our conception of white light, it doesn't have to be.

但就像身体的模型或者我们对于白光的概念样，如此细致的程度实在没有必要。