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BBC星球系列《月亮之谜》（themoon），讲述一个关于人类与月亮的爱情故事，人类是如何从迷恋到倦极生厌，而为何重新爱上它的历程。节目带领观众回溯远古时期，人们用卡拉尼什立巨石阵表达对月亮的礼赞，它既是圣地亦是古代的观测站。同时游走世界各地观察各种自然现象，从中总结出月亮的变化规则及月亮对于地球活动的影响，并一一解答关于月亮的各种迷踪。
n. 重力，严重，庄重，严肃
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- The moon was an ancient, fossilised world.
- 月球是个古老的化石世界
- Its rocks hadn't changed for billions of years.
- 它的岩石数十亿年来没有改变
- Scientists were thrilled.
- 科学家喜出望外
- Basically the surface of the moon kind of froze
- 基本上来说，月球表面
- about roughly 3 billion years ago and preserved
- 在大约30亿年前结冰
- really the first one and a half billion years of its history.
- 因此保存了月球历史的头15亿年
- The moon tells us very much about
- 月球大大提升了
- the early history of the solar system.
- 我们对太阳系早期历史的了解
- It's probably one of the best recorders
- 可说是太阳系早期历史
- of the early history of our solar system.
- 保存最好的纪录
- This ancient fossil was a scientific gold mine.
- 这个古老化石是科学上的金矿
- Because the moon was so well preserved it meant scientists
- 因为月球保存良好，因此表示科学家
- could finally answer the question that had come to obsess them.
- 终于可以回答萦绕心头多年的问题：
- How was the moon formed?
- 月球是如何形成的？
- At the time, there were 2 competing theories.
- 当时有两派说法
- The first was that the moon and the earth
- 一派主张月球和地球来自相同的星云
- were formed at the same time, from the same cloud of dust and gas.
- 并在同时形成
- The other theory was that the moon
- 另一派则主张
- was originally nothing do with the earth,
- 月球原本与月球毫无瓜葛
- but was wandering alone in space until the earth
- 而是兀自地在太空中漫游
- sucked it in with the power of its gravity.
- 直到被地球的引力吸住为止
- But the rocks themselves didn't seem to support either theory.
- 但月岩让这两派说法不攻自破
- They were different enough from rocks on earth
- 它们和地球上的岩石的差异
- to make it unlikely they were all formed at the same time.
- 让人觉得它们不太可能是同时形成的
- But they had enough similarities to make it equally unlikely
- 但两者间的相似性又让人觉得
- that the moon was a completely foreign body.
- 月球不可能和地球毫无瓜葛
- Eventually scientists came up with a new theory
- 最后科学家终于提出了一个新的理论
- that explained these strange rocks.
- 来解释这些奇特的岩石
- It was a brutal tale.
- 但这是个残酷的故事
- It takes us back 4 billion years to
- 这要从40亿年前说起
- when the solar system was a young and volatile place.
- 当时的太阳系新近形成，动荡不安
- There were many planets and asteroids circling the sun.
- 太阳周围有许多行星和小行星
- One of these was a young earth.
- 其中之一就是年轻的地球
- But there was also another young planet, a bit smaller.
- 但当时还有一个体积比较小的年轻行星
- The two were on a collision course.
- 它眼见就要撞上地球
- Eventually they crashed together.
- 小行星终于撞上了地球
- It was the biggest bang the solar system had ever seen.
- 惊天动地的撞击力道为太阳系中所仅见
- The impact was so massive that it spewed out millions of tons
- 撞击如此猛烈导致数百万顿的
- of molten rock and gases.
- 熔岩和气体喷出
- As this debris circled the earth it came together,
- 这些碎片环绕地球时
- forming a separate body our moon.
- 逐渐凝聚形成一个独立星体，这就是我们的月球
- When it first formed the moon was 10 times
- 月球刚形成时与地球的距离
- closer to the earth than it is today.
- 是现今的十分之一
- So it appeared much bigger in the sky
- 所以看起来不仅大得多
- and its gravitational pull was much stronger.
- 引力也更强
- But over time it slowly drifted away from the earth
- 但随着时间过去，月球和地球渐行渐远
- to its present position about a quarter of a million miles away.
- 直到离地球约25万里远的地方
- And there its orbit seemed to have stabilised,
- 月球的轨道似乎在此处稳定下来
- its distance from earth fixed for all time.
- 月球和地球间的距离就此固定，再也没有任何改变
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| gravity | ['græviti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| eventually | [i'ventjuəli] | |||
| productivity | [.prɔdʌk'tiviti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| planet | ['plænit] | |||
| obsess | [əb'ses] | |||
| gravitational | ['grævə'teiʃənəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| improvement | [im'pru:vmənt] | |||
| volatile | ['vɔlətail] | 联想记忆 | ||
| solution | [sə'lu:ʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| collision | [kə'liʒən] |
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