He covered his desk with magnets, and mapped out their lines of force by compass.

他在桌子上铺满了磁铁， 并用罗盘标出了它们的磁力线。

Then it has to return on its trail, and recover, if it can, its line of force.

然后它必须返回它的踪迹，如果可以的话，恢复它的力量线。

Then he read all the books he could find, and tried in vain to makes his lines of force agree with theirs.

然后他阅读了他能找到的所有书籍， 并试图使他的力线与他们的一致， 但没有成功。

Adams never knew why, knowing nothing of Faraday, he began to mimic Faraday's trick of seeing lines of force all about him, where he had always seen lines of will.

亚当斯不知道为什么，对法拉第一无所知，他开始模仿法拉第的把戏，在他周围看到力线，而他总是看到意志线。

The Rhine was more modern than the Hudson, as might well be, since it produced far more coal; but all this counted for little beside the radical change in the lines of force.

莱茵河比哈德逊河更现代，这很可能是因为它生产的煤炭要多得多。但是，除了力量分布的根本变化之外，所有这些都算不了什么。

From the archaic ice-barrier to the Caspian Sea, a long line of division, permanent since ice and inertia first took possession, divided his lines of force, with no relation to climate or geography or soil.

从古老的冰障到里海，一条长长的分界线，自冰和惯性首次占据以来一直存在，将他的力线分开，与气候、地理或土壤无关。

If his mind were really this sort of magnet, mechanically dispersing its lines of force when it went to sleep, and mechanically orienting them when it woke up — which was normal, the dispersion or orientation?

如果他的头脑真的是这种磁铁，在它入睡时机械地分散它的力线，并在它醒来时机械地定向它们——这是正常的，分散还是定向？