愉快的一天 日记

在一个风和日丽的节假日下午，还有比去选购自己的第一辆家用轿车更好的事吗？

上周正值国庆节和中秋，单位和学校都放假休息。年轻夫妇们川流不息地涌入“中国北方汽车交易市场”。市场上中低价位的轿车款式日益多样化，眼下银行又简化了购车贷款手续，这一切对购车心切的顾客无疑是一种诱惑。城市规划者可能会为拥护的交通和环境的污染而犯愁。但是人们多年埋葬在心底的梦想，在北京南部这个大型汽车市场终于显露出来 。从这一点来看，拥有私家车已是一股无法阻拦的潮流，它将给人们的社交方式和社会习惯带来巨大变化，也向环境提出了新的挑战。

Hubble’s last great contribution to astronomy was a central role in the design and construction of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain.

The only recognition that eluded him was a Nobel Prize—and not for lack of effort on his part. He tried everything. In the late 1940s he even hired a publicity agent to promote his cause. Alas, there was no prize for astronomy, and by the time the Nobel committee decided astronomy could be viewed as a branch of physics, it was too late. Insiders say Hubble was on the verge of winning when he died, in 1953.

Hubble would have been consoled by the fact that his name adorns the Hubble Space telescope, which probes the cosmos to depths he could not have imagined but would have fully appreciated. Whatever marvels the Hubble telescope reveals, they’re all played out on the stage Edwin Hubble first glimpsed from a lonely mountaintop in California.