great discovery

基本解释

So the great discovery began.
于是伟大的发现开始了。
I do not see any other explanation of how one can get so near to a great discovery and yet fail at the last, and rather small, step.
我还没有见过任何其它解释来说明一个人如何会离一个重大发现如此之近而最终与之失之交臂，即便仅仅差一小步。
Ever since the great discovery of the immortal Newton, it has been known that all celestial bodies attract one another, and that this attraction is the greater, the greater the attracting body is.
自从伟大的牛顿发现万有引力定律以来，我们已经了解到，所有的天体之间都是互相吸引的，而且天体的质量越大，引力越大。

These pictures show young readers what led Darwin to form his great discovery: the evolution of species through natural selection.
The great discovery that Galileo and Newton made is that you don't need a force for a body to move at constant velocity.
伽利略和牛顿的伟大发现就是,物体不需要力来维持匀速运动
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His first great discovery was made when he recognized a Cepheid variable star.

It was at this point that he—or, really, one of his graduate students—stumbled onto a great discovery.
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