That's right, Don. Yael, that's nonsense. Making a prediction would involve trigonometry. Dragonflies don't know trigonometry.

没错啊，老唐。 瑶瑶，这就胡扯了。做出预判需要三角的知识，蜻蜓可不懂什么三角。

I could do trigonometry five years ago.

我五年前能解三角题。

But it's also one of those things that you memorize when you take trigonometry.

但在三角函数的过程中这些值是应该会背起来的总之，我在这里没有用到甚麽魔法。

Using those triangles and the laws of trigonometry, they can calculate the height of the mountain.

利用这些三角形和三角定律，他们就能计算出这座山的高度。

The main technique that's been used for hundreds of years is maths, or trigonometry, to be precise.

数，或者更说，三角，是已经使用了数百年的主要技。

Today we did, um... trigonometry, which we have never covered before and we did it in, like, 15 minutes.

今天我们了。以前过的三角函数，他花了十五分钟就讲完了。

So, I'm taking geometry, algebra two, trigonometry, chemistry.

我在上几何 代数 三角还有化课。

Since when do you have to know trigonometry to get killed for your country?

什么时候开始 想为国捐躯还得先会三角了?

Norwood returned to Bermuda with his family, becoming a successful planter and devoting his leisure hours to his first love, trigonometry.

诺伍德携家人回到了百慕大，成为一名成功的种植园主，空闲时间便以他心爱的三角来消遣。

No, not really. I studied Latin at school, and I don't use that much. And maths - well, I never use trigonometry or calculus.

不能。我在校了拉丁文，但是我不经常使用。数，我来没用过三角法或微积分。

Calm down, Don. Dragonflies don't know trigonometry, but the research shows that their brains are organized to perform the needed computations. Your brain is too.

老唐，淡定！蜻蜓的不懂三角，但该研究表明，它们的大脑结构能够进行必须的计算。你的大脑也是一样。

Oh, well, you should have told me that before I spent my summer trying to explain fucking trigonometry.

那你早该在我花整个暑假 解释三角法之前告诉我。

If you know the distance between your eyes — we'll call this the baseline — then you can apply some trigonometry and figure out how far away the object is.

如果你知道自己两眼之间的距离——我们称之为基线——那么你就可以运用一些三角知识来计算出物体的距离。

I am going to learn: algebra, trigonometry, all this other middle school stuff, all the high school math, and first year undergrad calculus in two weeks, so I could sit in the back of this class.

代数，三角，所有这些初中数的内容，所有的高中数，和本科一年级的微积分。这样我就有资格坐在这个教室后面了。

But i've always supposed it was the music in his head, some hopeful tune the rest of us couldn't hear, the same secret melody he'd been humming when he bought that trigonometry book, or saved all those pencil shavings.

但我一直猜想那来自他脑海中的音乐，来自我们其他人听不到的充满希望的曲调，来自他买三角书和收藏铅笔屑时一直哼唱的秘密旋律。

I studied trigonometry for a month. I sometimes dreamed about sine, cosine and tangent, about mysterious angles and concussed computations, but for all this I made no real progress. I could not self-teach trigonometry. But I knew someone who had.

我习了一个月的三角。我有时会梦见正弦、余弦和正切，梦见神秘的角度和让我绞尽脑汁的计算，尽管如此，我并取得任何实质性进展。我无法自三角，但我认识一个自成功的人。

I began to study trigonometry. There was solace in its strange formulas and equations. I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always.

我开始习三角。奇怪的公式和方程让人安心。我被勾股定理及其通用性深深吸引——它始终能预测任意一个直角三角形三边的关系。