Whilst he was pensively meandering in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from a tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from earth, but that this power must extend much further than was usually thought.
当他在一座花园中沉思散步时，他突然想到重力（它的作用让一颗苹果从树上掉到地上）不会仅局限于地球周围的有限距离裡，而会延伸到比平常认为的更远的地方。