It's a set of concentric geodesic structures with linkages between each one.

这是一个同心和密格结构组，每个部分都彼此相连。

Years ago he got architects buzzing because he applied for a patent in 1961 for something called a geodesic dome.

在1961年他申请了一种圆顶结构专利，这在建业引起了颇多争议。

After a number of experimental geodesic domes were built, industry began to understand the value of the design.

在一些实验性格状顶建建成后，工业开始明白这种设计价值。

The shortest path in spacetime is defined by the geodesic, the path of light between two points.

时空中最短路径是由测地线定义，即光在两个点之间路径。

There are no limits to the size of a geodesic dome. So Fuller proposed using them over cities or over areas that had severe weather.

格状顶建小没有限制。所以富勒建议在有极端天气城市或区域使用这种建。

But he probably is known best for another invention -- the geodesic dome. A geodesic dome is a round building made of many straight-sided pieces.

但他最著名发明可能是另一项发明——测地线圆顶。测地线圆顶是由许多直边构件组成圆形建。

However, no one yet has acted on one of Fuller's ideas for the geodesic dome.

然而，还没有人对富勒格状顶建想法采取行动。

Today, there are about one hundred thousand different large and small geodesic domes in use around the world.

今天，世界上约有十万个不同小格状顶建在使用。

Light rays too must follow geodesics in space-time.

光线也必须遵循时空中测地线。

The most obvious, have you ever been to one of those geodesic domes?

最明显例子，你去过那种几何穹顶建吗？

Okay, that goes on my billboard that or my favorite Burning Man bar ever was had the giant neon sign on top of this kind of cozy geodesic dome playing groovy music decorated as an aquarium.

好，这将成为我广告牌上内容，或者说是我在火人节上最喜欢酒吧——它拥有一个巨霓虹灯标志，位于一个舒适形穹顶之上，播放着动感音乐，装饰得如同水族馆一般。

But his tendency to make great leaps from slight data meant his ideas often lacked solid foundations—much like his geodesic domes, novel structures that soared skywards without apparent support and occasionally came crashing down.

但他倾向于从微不足道数据中取得巨飞跃， 这意味着他想法往往缺乏坚实基础——就像他测地线穹顶一样， 新颖结构在没有明显支撑情况下直冲云霄， 偶尔会轰然倒塌。

And you also have to account for a country that is in the midst of a lot of political changes. And so the job of the geodesic mission was complicated to begin with.

你还得考虑到一个正处于量政治变革中国家。因此， 地测量任务工作从一开始就很复杂。

In Euclidean geometry, the geometry of Newtonian physics, that is a straight line, but in the geometry of space-time, a geodesic can be curved.

在欧几里得几何， 即牛顿物理学几何体系中，这是直线； 但在时空几何中，测地线可以是弯曲。