時光機'time machine'

時光機

Iranian scientist claims to have invented 'time machine'
 

(The telegraph By Ahmed Vahdat)
 

An Iranian businessman claims to have mastered time with a machine that allows users to fast forward up to eight years into the future.

Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.

 

The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state newsagency.

 

Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithims to "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy".

 

As the managing director of Iran's Centre for Strategic Inventions, Razeghi is a serial inventor with 179 other inventions listed under his own name. "I have been working on this project for the last 10 years," he said.

 

"My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."

 

Razeghi says Iran's government can predict the possibility of a military confrontation with a foreign country, and forecast the fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies and oil prices by using his new invention.

 

"Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilise it," he said. "As such we expect to market this invention among states as well as individuals once we reach a mass production stage."

 

Razeghi said his latest project has been criticised by friends and relatives for "trying to play God" with ordinary lives and history. "This project is not against our religious values at all. The Americans are trying to make this invention by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it by a fraction of the cost," he said. "The reason that we are not launching our prototype at this stage is that the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight."

 

** Words

1.  claim 聲稱     2. telegraph 電報     3. master 控制    4. forward 向前

5.  register 登記       6. centre (=center) 中心      7. strategic 戰略的

8.  device 設置，裝備       9. predict 預測           10. newsagency 報紙經銷商   

11.complex 複雜           12. algorithim 互除法       13. accuracy 正確性

14.serial 一系列的        15. work on 從事           16. military 軍事的

17.confrontation 對質，比較     18. forecast 預報     19. fluctuation 波動；變動

20.currency 貨幣          21. destabilise 使不穩定      22. criticise 批評  

23. ordinary 普通的       24. religious 宗教的          25. fraction 片段 

26. launch 開始           27. prototype 標準

 

** Grammar

1.  As the managing director of Iran's Centre for Strategic Inventions, Razeghi is a serial inventor with 179 other inventions listed under his own name.

(a) 表附帶狀況: with + 名詞 ~，為介係詞片語，有形容詞的功用，放在名詞後面做後位修飾。

(b)過去分詞listed 有被動的意思

2.  I have been working on this project for the last 10 years," he said.

(a) 現在完成進行式 have / has + been + V-ing

(b) for the last 10 years 過去這十年來，用在現在完成式或現在完成進行式

3.  "Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilise it," he said.

(a)   關係代名詞引導形容詞子句，放在名詞後面修飾名詞。

4.  The Americans are trying to make this invention by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it by a fraction of the cost.

(a)   藉由~ : by + 方法 ； with + 工具