Together, diffraction and interference help explain the results of the famous double-slit experiment conducted by English physicist Thomas Young in 1801.

衍射和干涉一起帮助解释了英国物理学家托马斯·杨在 1801 年进行的着名双缝实验的结果。

Thomas Young focused his attention on one set of hieroglyphs that he thought would probably spell out a single word: the name of a King or Queen.

Thomas Young 将注意力集中在一组象形文字上，他认为这些象形文字可能会拼出一个单词：国王或王后的名字。

But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到一位聪颖博学的英国学者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现的象形文字代表了一个王室姓氏的发音—托勒密。