A friendly gluon explains: there are an equal number of matter and antimatter particles.

这里有相同数量的物质和反物质粒子。

Similarly, the gluons of the strong force bind with the same strength to all flavours of quark.

类似地，强力胶子以相同的强度与所有夸克味结合。

Physicists can pretty much describe everything they’ve ever measured with those four forces, from galaxies to gluons.

物理学家几乎可以描述他们用这四种力测量到的一切，从星系到胶子。

The fact that confinement prevents one from observing an isolated quark or gluon might seem to make the whole notion of quarks and gluons as particles somewhat metaphysical.

限制阻止人们观察孤立的夸克或胶子这一事实似乎使夸克和胶子作为粒子的整个概念有点形而上学。

The arrangement essentially is that among the basic building blocks of matter are quarks; these are held together by particles called gluons; and together quarks and gluons form protons and neutrons, the stuff of the atom's nucleus.

这种安排其实说明，在物质的基本材料中有夸克；夸克由名叫胶子的粒子黏合在一起；夸克和胶子一起形成了原子核的材料，即质子和中子。

Bosons include photons, which carry the electromagnetic force (and are the particles of light), the aforementioned w boson, the gluons that hold atomic nuclei together via a second, strong nuclear force, and the Higgs.

玻色子包括携带电磁力的光子（ 并且是光的粒子） 、前面提到的 w 玻色子、 通过第二强核力将原子核保持在一起的胶子， 以及希格斯粒子。