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洗澡的时候，为什么会冒出这些奇怪的脑洞……

来源：中国日报    2021-07-28 09:00

Shower thoughts

Often an epiphany /ɪ'pɪfəni/ ;

Often sudden;

Often marked by the inability to recall later.

— From Urban Dictionary

A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.

These sorts of musings tend to arise when a person's mind is engaged with a routine, uncomplicated activity (like commuting, mowing the lawn, or waiting for a customer service representative to finally answer an allegedly important telephone call).

While the word "showerthought" may be a bit misleading – showerthoughts don't have to occur in the shower, after all – the concept it embodies is something that everyone has experienced.

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The most widely-known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape.

According to Vitruvius, a votive crown for a temple had been made for King Hiero II of Syracuse, who had supplied the pure gold to be used, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether some silver had been substituted by the dishonest goldsmith.

Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not melt it down into a regularly shaped body to calculate its density.

While taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown.

Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying "Eureka!" (Greek: "εὕρηκα, heúrēka!", meaning "I have found [it]!")

Notes

oddity n. /ˈɒdəti/古怪反常的人（或事物）

parallel adj. /ˈpærəlel /平行的；同时发生的

anecdote n. /ˈænɪkdoʊt/轶事；趣闻

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