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总体来说，觉得这篇有点难，可能这个方面接触的不多，做的时间久了些，还有几段没有翻译完，提做完了，还要继续，文章自己觉得做的还好。继续做后续工作。 Lightning Lightning is a brilliant flash of light produced by an electrical discharge from a storm cloud. 闪光是一个有亮光的闪光，从暴风云中产生的电火花。The electrical discharge takes place when the attractive tension between a region of negatively charged particles and a region of positively charged particles becomes so great that the charged particles suddenly rush together. 当一个地区的有吸引力的带电负离子和一个地区的带电正离子发生了放电过程，并且一个地区的正电粒子非常大，以至于很多带电粒子突然冲在一起 The coming together of the oppositely charged particles neutralizes（中和） the electrical tension（电压） and releases a tremendous amount of energy, which we see as lightning. The separation of positively and negatively charged particles takes place during the development of the storm cloud. 正电粒子的聚集中和了电压并且减少了巨大的能量，这就是我们看到的闪电。正负粒子的分离是产生在暴风云的发展。 The separation of charged particles（带电粒子） that forms in a storm cloud has a sandwich-like structure. 分离的带电粒子是形成在有夹层结构的暴风云中的 Concentrations of positively charged particles develop at the top and bottom of the cloud, 一定程度的带电粒子是发生在云的上部和底部的but the middle region becomes negatively charged（带负电的）.但是在中部转变成的负离子 Recent measurements made in the field together with laboratory simulations offer a promising explanation of how this structure of charged particles forms.（举例子了：最近测量领域连同实验模拟提供一个人有希望的解释带电粒子的结构形式。） What happens is that small (millimeter-to centimeter-size) pellets of ice form in the cold upper regions of the cloud. 一些小的冰块形成在云上冷的地方发生了什么？ When these ice pellets fall, some of them strike much smaller ice crystals in the center of the cloud. 当这些冰球掉下，在云的中间，一些冰球会和一些小的融合在云的中间。The temperature at the center of the cloud is about -15℃ or lower. At such temperatures, the collision between the ice pellets and the ice crystals causes electrical charges to shift so that the ice pellets acquire a negative charge and the ice crystals become positively charged.温度在云下大概是-15度或更低，像温度，撞击的冰球和冰晶的带电粒子会发生改变，以至于冰球获得负电子的，冰晶变成带正电子的。 Then updraft wind（上升气流风） currents carry the l