Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century.

然而，对静态宇宙的信念如此强烈，以至于它一直持续到 20 世纪初。

Newton, and others, should have realized that a static universe would soon start to contract under the influence of gravity.

牛顿和其他人应该已经意识到，静态宇宙很快就会在引力的影响下开始收缩。

The difficulty is that in an infinite static universe nearly every line of sight would end on the surface of a star.

困难在于，在一个无限静态的宇宙中，几乎每条视线都将终止于一颗恒星的表面。

In 1917 he began working on what he termed the 'cosmological constant', a theory which supposed the existence of a static universe.

1917 年，他开始研究他所谓的“宇宙常数”，该理论假设静态宇宙的存在。

There was also the problem that if stars had been burning indefinitely in a static universe they'd have made the whole intolerably hot-certainly much too hot for the likes of us.

要是恒星在一个静止的宇宙里不停燃烧，就会使整个宇宙酷热难当——对于我们这样的生物来说当然是太热了。