| 案发 | an4 fa1 | case revelation |
| 沉睡 | chen2 shui4 | to slumber |
| 北京人 | bei3 jing1 ren2 | Beijinger |
| 内奸 | nei4 jian1 | undiscovered traitor |
| 多普勒 | duo1 pu3 le4 | Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect |
| 智神星 | zhi4 shen2 xing1 | Pallas, an asteroid, discovered in 1802 by H.W. Olbers |
| 被发现 | bei4 fa1 xian4 | to be discovered |
| 阿普尔顿 | a1 pu3 er3 dun4 | Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere |
| 犯案 | fan4 an4 | to be discovered and brought to justice |
| 发现了 | fa1 xian4 le5 | to have discovered |
| 灶神星 | zao4 shen2 xing1 | Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers |
| 研究发现 | yan2 jiu1 fa1 xian4 | research has discovered |
| 莫霍洛维奇 | mo4 huo4 luo4 wei2 qi2 | Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovii (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho |