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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Designer creates floating bed 設計師製作出浮床
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A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros.
一名年輕的荷蘭建築師創作出一張浮在空中的床，這張床是利用磁力浮在地面上，價格則高達120萬歐元。
Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed -- a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth -- from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 cult film "2001：A Space Odyssey".
Janjaap Ruijssenaars設計的這張床 -- 一塊簡潔的黑色平台，共花了6年時間研發，還可以充當餐桌或底座 -- 其設計靈感來自史丹利．庫伯力克於1968年拍攝的經典名片「2001：太空漫遊」中的神秘巨型石柱。
"No matter where you live all architecture is dictated by gravity. I wondered whether you could make an object, a building or a piece of furniture where this is not the case -- where another power actually dictates the image," Ruijssenaars said.
「不論你住在哪裡，所有的建築都受到重力控制。我想知道能不能製造出可以不受此限的物體、建築或家具 -- 讓另一種力量控制其形象。」Ruijssenaars說。
Magnets built into the floor and into the bed itself repel each other, pushing the bed up into the air. Thin steel cables tether the bed in place.
被植入地板和床板的磁鐵會產生互斥，把床推向空中。細鋼絲則固定住床的位置。
Although people with piercings should have no problem sleeping on the bed, Ruijssenaars advises them against entering the magnetic field between the bed and the floor. They could find their piercing suddenly tugged towards one of the magnets.
雖然身上穿有體環的人睡在這張床上，應不會有問題，但Ruijssenaars仍建議他們不要進入床板與地板之間的磁場。他們可能發覺他們的體環會突然被拖向其中一塊磁鐵。
新聞辭典
hover：動詞，指盤旋、停留在空中；徘徊或猶豫，如The helicopter hovered over the house.（直升機在那間房子上空盤旋。）或 She is hovering between life and death.（她正徘徊於生死關頭。）
sleek：優雅的、時髦的，如The sleek ship slid from the harbor.（那條造型優美的船徐徐駛出港口。）
dictate：動詞，指命令、指定、規定，如The police dictated where the crowd should stand during the parade.（警察指定群眾在遊行時應站的位置。）dictate亦可做名詞，指命令、支配，如 I follow the dictates of my conscience.（我憑自己的良心辦事。）
