来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新生有机化学 第4集 第4集》

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  when I should have the opportunity."
  关于油作用于水的实验"
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  And when he had the opportunity was when he was in London.
  他在伦敦时机会来了
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  So here's London, and his experiment in 1762 was in that place,
  因此1762年他在南伦敦的
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  on Clapham Common in South London.
  克拉彭卡门完成了他的实验
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  "At length being at Clapham,
  "最终在克拉彭
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  where there is on the common a large pond
  那里有个很大的池塘
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  which I observed one day to be very rough with the wind,
  根据我的观察那池塘上的风势一直很猛
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  I fetched out a cruet of oil
  我拿出一瓶油
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  and dropped a little of it on the water.
  并向水中滴入了几滴
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  I saw it spread itself
  我观察到油沿着水面
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  with surprising swiftness upon the surface;
  迅速地扩散开去
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  but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced."
  但没有观察到水波被缓解的现象"