单词bode-s-law
But there was a problem: Bode"s law predicted that there ought to be a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
不过，问题出现了：波德定则预测，火星和木星之间还应有一颗行星。
Bode was a German astronomer who popularised a mathematical rule, which came to be known as Bode"s law, in a book published in 1772.
他使一条被称为波德定律的数学定律广为人知。在1772年出版的一本书中第一次出现。
Bode"s law, it seemed, was just a coincidence, an example of the human mind"s tendency to find a meaningful pattern where none exists.
波德定律看起来似乎仅仅是一个巧合罢了，一种人类试图为不存在的东西找到合理说法的思维定式。
There is, in other words, starting to be enough evidence to suggest that Bode"s law might not be a complete fluke.
换句话说，有足够的证据开始支持波德定则或并不全是侥幸的结果。
In the two centuries since, however, Bode"s law has fallen from grace.
两个世纪过去了，然而波德定律不再那么优雅迷人了。
According to Bode"s law, there is a hidden pattern in the spacing of the orbits of the planets.
根据波德定律，行星轨道的空间一定会有某种隐含模式。