Direct-current

direct [di'rekt, dai'rekt]

adj. 直接的;直的;直系的;率直的; adv. 直接地;径直地;直截了当地;正好; vt. （用建议、指示、有益的情报等）指导;导演（戏剧或电影）;指示方向;把…对准（某方向或某人）; vt.& vi. 指导，导演，管理; vi. 引路;当向导;领唱;领奏;

current ['kɝənt]

adj. 现在的;最近的;流行的;流传的; n. 趋势;电流;水流;涌流;

curr跑，发生+ent具有...性质的→跑的→流动的

Right. We don't have any cinnamon.

对。我们没有肉桂了。

They're all tall, they all have blond hair, and they all seem to have blue eyes, too.

他们都是高个子、金发、看起来也都是蓝眼睛。

We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，