新概念英语第四册课文原文：蝴蝶效应

206. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot intervals all the way to the top of the atmosphere.

假设地球上可以布满传感器，每个相隔1英尺，并按1英尺的间隔从地面一直排列到大气层的顶端。

207. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and any other quantity a meteorologist would want.

再假定每个传感器都极极端准确地读出了温度、气压、温度和气象学家需要的任何其他数据。

208. Precisely at noon an infinitely powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 1202, then 12.03...

在正午时分，一个功能巨大的计算机搜集了所有的资料，并算出在每一个点上12：01、12：02、12：03时可能出现的情况。

209. The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away.

计算机无法推断出1个月以后的某一天，新泽西州的普林斯顿究竟是晴天还是雨天。

210. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations that the computer will not know about, tiny deviations from the average.

正午时分，传感器之间的距离会掩盖计算机无法知道的波动、任何偏平均值的变化。

211. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away.

到12：01时，那些波动就已经会在1英尺远的地方造成偏差。

212. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.

很快这种偏差会增加到尺10英的范围，如此等等，一直到全球的范围。