The other ball, known as the cue ball, is white.

剩下的那个球，被称作母球，是白色的。

Players strike the cue ball with the end of a long piece of wood, called a cue stick.

选手用一根被称作球杆（a cue stick）的长木头的末端击打母球。

You can put your opponent in a difficult position by leaving the cue ball behind the eight ball.

你可以通过让母球留在八号球后面的方法让你的对手犯难。

We laid down the cash and I handed him the cue ball.

我们各自押下现金后我把母球递给他。

One is to use a “kinetic impactor”—in effect employing a heavy, fast-moving spacecraft as the cue ball in a game of interplanetary billiards.

一种办法是使用“动能冲击飞船”——就好像把一种重型快速移动的飞船当做白球，在太空打台球一样。

They also funnel high energy particles down to a layer of the Sun called the chromosphere, where they quickly transfer their energy like a cue ball striking the rack in the game of billiards.

它们还能集合成高能粒子，掉进太阳的光化层，在那这些高能粒子快速的转化其能量，就像台球中开球时用母球撞击一堆目标球一样。