They stretch across the ocean. They're three or five or eight thousand miles in length, and if the material science and the computational technology is incredibly complicated, the basic physical process is shockingly simple. Light goes in on one end of the ocean and comes out on the other, and it usually comes from a building called a landing station that's often tucked away inconspicuously in a little seaside neighborhood, and there are amplifiers that sit on the ocean floor
它们在大海里延伸 它们有三或五 或八千英里那么长 如果说材料科学和计算机技术 是无比复杂的 当中的基本物理过程 却是惊人的简单 灯光从海的一边进去 再从另一边出来 通常是从 一座叫作坐落站的大楼出来 常在临近海边不显眼的地方妥善保存起来 在海床设有增强器