He was a mote caught in the glare of the noon sun.

他是正午阳光下的一颗。

In the compressed air motes and heat distortion.

在压缩有和热变形。

No dust mote escaped my eye, no tea ring my forensic attentions.

没有埃逃过我的眼睛，没有茶环我的法医关注。

They had colored tips, and tiny particles danced around them like dust motes.

它们有彩色的尖端， 小的颗像埃一样在它们周围跳舞。

Whirling galaxies will spark star-fire from drifting motes and volatile gas.

旋转的星系将从漂流的和挥发性体引发星火。

Little motes of material that can teach us about the earliest days of the solar system.

可以让我们了解太阳系最早时期的小颗料。

Motes of dust revolving in the first rays of the sun are all it takes to make me afraid.

在第一缕阳光旋转的埃足以让我感到害怕。

And everything in the universe has to follow those curves, from the most massive black hole to the smallest mote of dust, even to beams of light.

它还告诉我们，宇宙万物都遵从着时的轨迹，无论是擎天撼地的黑洞，还是不足道的埃，乃至风驰电掣的光线，无一不是如此。

You're just one little dust mote among that 7 billion, and so it really doesn't matter what you do or don't do, but that's simply not the case.

你只是这 70 亿人的一，所以你做什么或不做什么真的无关紧要， 但事实并非如此。

It had never been a good eye to see with—had long had the mote in it of Lucifer’s pride, Sardanapalus’s luxury, and a mole’s blindness—but it had dropped out and was gone.

它从来都不是一双好眼——长期以来，它有着路西法的骄傲、萨达纳帕卢斯的奢侈和鼹鼠的失明——但它已经脱落并消失了。

It was dead silent, already shot through with her absence in a way it had never been when she was in the hospital, dust motes settling in the still, warm air.

四周一片死寂，由于她不在， 她在医院时从未有过这种情况， 埃落在静止、温暖的。

Her face, the face of a saint, a viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush from the wine-colored lanterns in the pine.

她的脸，圣人的脸，一个维京麦当娜， 透过烛光下积雪的弱闪耀着光芒， 从松树上酒红色的灯笼上吸下了它的红晕。

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上，引力同样是万众瞩目的角色，整个世界，无论是小的埃还是庞大的恒星，都在引力这位雕刻师的手下由混沌变得有序。