Then in 1859, these two scientists made the discovery that cracked Fraunhofer's code.

然后在 1859 年，这两位科学家的发现破解了弗劳恩霍夫的密码。

These absences are called Fraunhofer lines, after the German physicist who discovered them two centuries ago.

这些缺失的频率被称为夫琅和费谱线，200年前，德国物理学家发现了它们。

The scientists who cracked Fraunhofer's code were named Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen.

破解弗劳恩霍夫密码的科学家名叫古斯塔夫·基尔霍夫和罗伯特·本森。

The key to this discovery was encoded in those same missing lines Fraunhofer spotted in the sun's spectrum a hundred years earlier.

这一发现的关键是由弗劳恩霍夫一百年前在太阳光谱中发现的那些缺失的线条编码的。

Fraunhofer couldn't explain what he didn't see but eventually he cataloged over 600 pieces missing from the rainbow, some were dark, some were faint.

弗劳恩霍夫无法解释他没有看到的东西，但最终他对彩虹中缺失的 600 多个碎片进行了编目，有些是深色的，有些是微弱的。

He didn't know exactly why this happened but concluded that Fraunhofer's black lines were caused by elements in the sun absorbing specific wavelengths.

他不知道为什么会发生这种情况，但他得出结论，弗劳恩霍夫的黑线是由太阳中的元素吸收特定波长引起的。

As sunlight hits all the different atoms in its path, bumping electrons up to higher energy levels, they absorb part of the spectrum, creating the missing rainbow that Fraunhofer saw.

当太阳光照射到其路径上的所有不同原子时，将电子撞击到更高的能级，它们吸收了部分光谱，创造出了弗劳恩霍夫看到的残缺的彩虹。

But work by Claudia dos Santos at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, and Christian Mayer at Duisburg-Essen University in Stuttgart, has brought the day when they will be able to do so a little nearer.

但是在德国弗劳恩霍夫制造工程和自动化学会的Claudia dos Santos和斯图加特杜伊斯堡-艾森大学的Christian Mayer的共同研究下，无生命物体实现自我修复那一天的到来被拉近了一点。

By examining sunlight and a sodium flame at the same time, Kirchhoff and Bunsen were able to show that the bright lines emitted by burning sodium fit like puzzle pieces with certain dark lines missing from Fraunhofer's rainbow.

通过同时检查阳光和钠火焰，基尔霍夫和本森能够证明钠燃烧发出的明亮线条就像拼图一样吻合，而弗劳恩霍夫的彩虹中缺少某些黑线。