| 词汇 | quark |
| 词源 | quark. Some scientists believe that quarks, three types of ele- mentary particles, form the basis of all the matter in the uni- verse. The word quark was applied to the particles by physicist W. Gell-Mann, but he took it from a James Joyce coinage in Finnegans Wake. However, unlike Joyce’s quark, which rhymes with dark, Gell-Mann’s quark is pronounced quork. There is no argument, as the coiner made this clear in a 1978 letter to the editor of the O.E.D. Supplement, Volume III. |
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