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本节目将带领大家探索谜样的太阳，深入了解太阳对我们过去、现在、未来生活的重要性。也探讨了太阳如何影响地球的重大科学发现，它每秒钟所释放的能量足够人类使用百万年。它仍是我们未来唯一的希望。
vi. 蹲伏，蜷伏；卑躬屈膝 vt. 低头；屈膝 n.
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- This is Orkney to live here is to know the importance of the sun.
- 这是奥克尼，住在这里的人对太阳的重要性了然于心
- In the summer the days are long and full of light.
- 夏季时，这里的白昼漫长明亮
- In December it's a different story.
- 但到了12月就完全变了样
- It's midwinter.
- 现在时值隆冬
- It's about 11 in the morning and it's still not light completely.
- 已经上午十一点了，天还只是濛濛亮
- There's a strong wind coming in off the Atlantic.
- 大西洋上吹来阵阵强风
- And it's cold and it's wet and
- 天气又冷又湿
- that's pretty much typical of this time of the year up here.
- 这里每年一到这个时节，就会这样
- Yet despite the cold,in the stone age,
- 尽管寒冷，五千年前的石器时代
- 5000 years ago a civilisation thrived here.
- 曾有文明在这里兴盛发展
- The island is covered in the remains of their society.
- 岛上遍布那个社会留下来的遗迹
- The ruins are full of mystery.
- 废墟弥漫着神秘的气息
- We know little about the people who lived here.
- 我们对住在这里的人所知甚少
- But they did leave evidence of the important role
- 但由他们留下的线索可以判断
- the sun played in their lives.
- 太阳在他们生活中所扮演的重要角色
- MaesHowe - a thousand years older than the pyramids
- 年代比金字塔还早一千年的梅萧韦古墓葬
- is one of finest examples of stone age architecture.
- 是最杰出的石器时代建筑典范之一
- On entering MaesHowe you have to crouch right down
- 进梅萧韦古墓葬时，得要拱背弯腰
- and you're confronted with a passage
- 眼前的通道
- which seems to actually go on and on and on,
- 似乎没完没了
- slightly, feel an impression of going uphill, up a slope.
- 你有种走上坡路的感觉
- And coming through clearly another doorway.
- 穿过另一道门
- Suddenly the whole thing opens out into the most amazing chamber.
- 然后眼前豁然开朗，看到一座惊人的石室
- This alone is probably the highest and largest enclosed space
- 这可能是新石器时代，奥克尼人看过
- the Neolithic Orkadians would have experienced.
- 最大、最高的室内空间
- When it was excavated,
- 十九世纪
- when it was first entered back in the 19th century the clay floor
- 这里刚被人发现的时候，这里的黏土地板上
- was littered with broken pieces of human skull.
- 布满了人类颅骨的碎片
- This is a place of the dead.
- 这是个属于死者的地方
- This is a house of the dead.
- 是亡灵之屋
- Most of the time the occupants of
- 墓穴中的死者多半处于
- the tomb were left in complete darkness.
- 伸手不见五指的黑暗中
- Then at sunset on the Winter Solstice
- 但是到了冬至…
- the shortest day of the year
- 即一年中最短的一天在落日时分
- something amazing happens.
- 会发生一件惊人的事
- The light of the setting sun shines straight up
- 落日的余晖射进入口隧道
- the entrance tunnel and illuminates the interior.
- 照亮墓穴内部
- Well the significance is that it's marking
- 其重要性是标示了一年中
- the shortest time of the year,
- 白昼最短、日照最少的一天
- with the least light,and from that point on,
- 从这天开始
- slowly and gradually,the light is going to increase,
- 日照会渐渐增加
- the days are going to grow longer.
- 白昼会越来越长
- So what's happening here,is that the dead,
- 也就是说他们在一年中
- the ancestors, are being awoken on that shortest day.
- 白昼最短的一天，唤醒往生的祖先
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