[Off Topic] 跑题-Mamihlapinatapai

Mamihlapinatapai, 按照维基百科解释, 来自火地岛Yaghan语的一个词, 被吉尼斯世界纪录大全收为"最简洁的词", 同时也被认为是最难翻译的词之一. 它描述了两个人之间这样一种神情: 两个人有着相同的渴望, 但是每个人都希望对方能够首先打破"僵持", 但是都不愿从自己这里开始.

不知道能描述这个最简洁的的词所表述出的复杂含义所对应的最简洁的中文是什么,  "爱你在心口难开"? 或者, "执手相看泪眼,竟无语凝噎"? 呵呵.

英文WikiPedia关于此词的解说:

Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate.^[1] It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as "eye-contact implying 'after you...'". A more literal approximation is "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other".
The word consists of prefix ma(m)- reflexive/passive (second m before roots beginning with a vowel), root ihlapi (hl pronounced as /ɬ/, though in Yahgan it has also been described as similar to sl) which means to be at a loss as to what to do next, followed by stative suffix -n- and achievement suffix -at(a), and finally dual -apai, which in composition with ma(m)- has a reciprocal sense.
It is also the title of a song by the American singer-songwriter Ronny Cox.

BTW, 很喜欢这张照片的眼里所蕴含的这种"Mamihlapinatapai"的神情: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tekmagika/1414712436/

5个有趣的Mac视觉效果

1. Expose慢镜头: shift-F10或shift-F11
2. 缩放当前屏幕显示: ctrl-鼠标滚轮(或ctrl+笔记本触控板双指触摸)
3. 窗口最小化慢镜头: shift-单击最小化按钮
4. Dashboard慢镜头: shift-F12
5. 屏幕显示色彩反转: ctrl-option-command-8

Dock小Trick: 让你的窗口在最小化中间悬停

1. 把Dock的最小化效果设置为"Genie Effect(神奇效果)", 具体在System Preference-Dock-Minimize using-Genie Effect

2. 打开Terminal终端, 键入killall Dock, 但是先不要回车运行

3. 打开Safari, 打开某个网页,比如memobot.blogspot.com

4. 回到Terminal终端程序, 且保持Safari网页窗口在终端程序后面可见

5. 按住Shfit键, 同时单击Safari窗口左上角黄色最小化按钮, 你会看到Safari窗口以慢镜头方式缓慢最小化; 在Safari窗口最小化过程中, 进入Terminal终端, 回车执行前面输入的killall Dock命令

你会发现Dock消失, Safari最小化窗口无处可去, 悬停"半空". 更酷的是悬停半空的窗口还是有反应的, 你可以在那里继续浏览网页! killall Dock不会破坏系统或更改系统设置, Dock还会自己回来的; 至于Sarari悬停窗口, Command+Q退出再进去就回复原样了.

看个屏幕截图~Enjoy~

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/383590207_de0220edf1_o.png

50 Interesting Science Facts-50个趣味科学小知识

50 Interesting Science Facts by calisto, from immense world-

50个趣味科学小知识-

1 – The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
光速通常被四舍五入到每秒18万6千英里. 精确来说, 这个数字是299,792,458米/秒(相当于186,287.49英里/秒).

2 – It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
光从太阳表面到达地球所需的时间为8分17秒.

3 – 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
此时此刻所有已经出生的人中, 有10%活在世上.

4 – The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
地球自转的速度是每小时1000英里, 但它在宇宙中串行(绕太阳公转)的速度却高达每小时67,000英里.

5 – Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
地球上每年发生超过100万次的地震.

6 – When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
1883年克拉卡托火山爆发的强度如此之大以至于4800公里以外的澳大利亚都能听得到.

7 – Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
每秒钟约有100次闪电击中地球.


8 – Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
每年被闪电击中而死亡的人数约1000人.

9 – In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
1999年10月一块相当于伦敦大小的冰山从南极冰架脱离.

10 – If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
假设你能够垂直向上驾驶你的汽车的话, 你可以在一个多小时到达太空.

11 – Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
人体内蛔虫可以长到22.9米长.

12 – The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
地球的年龄是45.6亿岁, 与月亮和太阳同龄.

13 – The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
恐龙在洛机山脉或阿尔卑斯山脉形成之前就已经绝迹了.

14 – Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
雌性黑寡妇蜘蛛在交配之后会吃掉它们的交配对象.

15 – When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
跳蚤弹跳的加速度是航天飞机起飞加速度的20倍.

16 – If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
假设太阳的直径缩小到一英寸, 离其最近的星体约445英里远.

17 – Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
宇航员不会打嗝-没有重力来分离他们胃里的气体与液体.

18 – The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
珠穆朗玛峰顶峰, 29029英尺高处的空气浓度只有海平面空气浓度的1/3.

19 – One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.
宇宙大爆炸后的一百万,百万,百万,百万,百万分之一秒后的宇宙只有...一个豌豆大小.

20 – DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
DNA是瑞士人Friedrich Mieschler在1869年首次发现的.

21 – The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
DNA的分子结构是由Watson和Crick在1953年首次确定的.

22 – The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
第一个人类合成染色体是在1997年由美国科学家构建的.

23 – The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
温度计是伽利略在1607年发明的.

24 – Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
阿尔弗来德 诺贝尔在1866年发明炸药.

25 – Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
1895年威廉 伦琴因发明X射线而获得第一届诺贝尔物理学奖.

26 – The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
世界上最高的树曾是澳大利亚的一棵桉树-1872年测量高度为435英尺(约132.6米).

27 – Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
1967年Christian Barnard医生进行了世界上首例心脏移植手术-病人术后又活了18天.

28 – An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
电鳗可以产生650伏的电击.

29 – ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
1962年Telstar通讯卫星的发射使无线通讯技术跃进一大步, 该卫星为首颗能够传送电话和电视信号的卫星.

30 – The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
埃博拉病毒的致死率高达4/5.

31 – In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
50亿年内, 太阳将会耗尽燃料而成为一颗红巨星.

32 – Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
通常24小时内长颈鹿只睡眠20分钟. 它们最多可以睡上2小时(累加,不是一觉). 它们从来都不躺下.

33 – There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
人体内血管总长度有6万英里.

34 – An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
一颗单一的血细胞完成一个完整的体内循环需要60秒钟.

35 – On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
电话发明者贝尔被埋葬的那天, 整个美国电话系统关闭1分钟以致敬.


36 – The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
座头鲸的低频呼叫是活生物所发出的最响的噪音.

37 – A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
到2010年, 世界上1/4的植物面临灭绝的危险.

38 – Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
人一生中脱掉的皮约有40磅.

39 – At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
地球上最大的眼睛是巨鱿的眼睛, 其直径有15英寸.

40 – The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
宇宙中有1000亿个星系.

41 – Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
生蛆的伤口会很快愈合,并且不会受到坏疽或其它感染的传播.

42 – More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
握手比接吻传播的细菌要多.

43 – The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
能够击中你的雨滴的最快下落速度是18英里/小时.

44 – It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
重物下沉6.7英里至海洋最深处需要一个多小时.

45 – Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
你在阅读这句的时候, 大约有100万到10亿个太阳微中子穿过你的身体.

46 – The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
世界上海洋最深处是太平洋的马里亚纳海沟, 深35,797英尺.


47 – Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
每一小时宇宙向四周扩大10亿英里.

48 – Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
电视机调台的频闪中的某一处是宇宙大爆炸的背景辐射.


49 – Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
即使以光速运行, 到达最近的仙女座星系也需要200万年.

50 – A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
只有极少数的中子星重于1亿吨.