VOA慢速英语:Edwin Hubble Changed Our Ideas About the Universe and Its Birth

1. Instead, he decided to continue his studies. 

decide to do 决定做
例句：When'd you decide to do it, ash?
你什么时候决定这么做的，艾希？

2.  He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before.

interested in 对……感兴趣
例句：I'm not interested in politics.
我对政治不感兴趣。

3. The astronomical term "nebulae," Hubble explained, had come down through the centuries.

come down 下来；败落
例句：The window washer is refusing to come down.
洗窗户的拒绝下来。

4. As stars differ from one another, he said, so do galaxies.

differ from 与...不同
例句：We differ from each other in many ways.
我们在许多方面不同。
one another 互相
例句：For years the two sisters looked after one another.
多年来两姐妹互相照顾。

5. All galaxies, he said, are related to each other, much as members of a family are related to each other.

each other 互相
例句：We must all help each other.
我们都应该互相帮助。

6. His investigation led to the most important astronomical discovery of the Twentieth century -- the expanding universe.

lead to 导致
例句：This may even lead to death.
这甚至可能导致死亡。

7. He discovered that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds between three hundred kilometers a second and one thousand eight hundred kilometers a second. 

away from 远离
例句：Then you'd better stay away from drugs.
那你最好远离毒品。

8. He continued to gain new knowledge about them. Astronomers from all over the world went to study with him.

continue to 继续
例句：And we will continue to do so.
我们会继续做下去。

9. He died in nineteen fifty-three while preparing to spend four nights looking through the telescope at the sky. 

look through 看穿
例句：And if you look, you look through me.
如果你只要看一下,你就能看穿我。