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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. 日或月食，丧失，没落
vt. 形成日或月
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- As the moon pulls away it will put an end
- 随着月球日渐远离
- to one of nature's most glorious spectacles;
- 自然界中最壮丽的奇景也将画下句点
- a total solar eclipse.
- 那就是日全食
- The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun.
- 月球的体积是太阳的四百分之一
- But at the moment it is also precisely 400 times
- 但目前和地球的距离
- closer to the earth than the sun is.
- 也是太阳和地球距离的四百分之一
- This amazing coincidence means that
- 这个惊人的巧合表示
- when the moon passes directly in front of the sun,
- 月球经过太阳前方时
- it appears exactly the same size.
- 两者看来体积相当
- We are living at the only time in the history of the solar system
- 只有我们身处的这个时代
- when this unique spectacle is possible.
- 才看得到这种奇观
- As the moon drifts away from us,
- 随着月球日渐远离
- this awe-inspiring sight will be over forever.
- 这个令人敬畏的异象，将会成为历史
- So over the years scientists continued to
- 这些年来科学家不断做出
- make exciting new discoveries about our moon.
- 有关月球的新发现
- But somehow it was never enough to reignite our passion
- 但似乎永远不足以再度引燃
- for our closest neighbour.
- 我们对月球的热情
- And that was partly because our attention had turned elsewhere.
- 有部分原因可归咎于人们的注意力已转向别的地方
- There are over one hundred
- 太阳系中还有150多颗
- and fifty other moons in the solar system,
- 其他的卫星
- and by the late 1970's we were starting to explore them.
- 我们在1970年代末期，开始探索这些卫星
- The results were spectacular.
- 得到的结果令人啧啧称奇
- The journey of discovery began with the Voyager probes.
- 航海家探测器为这趟发现之旅揭开了序幕
- They were sent to explore the outer solar system
- 它们的目的是探索外侧太阳系
- the gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn.
- 如木星和土星等巨型气体行星
- Until now these extraordinary worlds
- 在此之前人们只能透过望远镜
- had been seen only through telescopes.
- 观察这些奇异又美丽的世界
- It took 2 years for these probes to reach their first port of call
- 这些探测器花了两年才抵达第一个停靠点
- Jupiter.
- 木星
- Scientists all over the world were gripped,
- 世界各地的科学家都屏息
- waiting for the first close up pictures of the great giant.
- 等待木星第一批特写照片回传
- But when Voyager started transmitting pictures back to earth,
- 但是航海家开始将影像回传地球时
- they were in for a surprise.
- 科学家有了意想不到的惊喜
- It seemed it was Jupiter's moons, rather than the planet itself,
- 看来最惊人的秘密，似乎存在于木星的卫星
- that held the most exciting secrets.
- 而非木星本身
- We thought the moons of the outer planets
- 我们一直以为外行星的卫星
- would be lumps of ice covered in craters.
- 都是布满陨石坑的冰块
- And that was about it.
- 此外乏善可陈
- But when Voyager started transmitting
- 但航海家开始回传
- back pictures of Jupiter's innermost moon,
- 最靠近木星的卫星木卫一的影像时
- lo, there was a strange anomaly.
- 出现了一个奇怪的异常之处
- A young NASA scientist spotted
- 航太总署一名年轻科学家发现
- an odd looking bulge on the moon's side.
- 卫星的侧面有个奇怪的隆起
- I came in about 9 o'clock that morning to the navigation area
- 我那天早上九点左右来到导航区
- and the tape with the pictures the spacecraft
- 探测器前一天拍到的影片
- had taken the day before was on my desk.
- 就放在我桌上
- I put them on the computer system
- 于是我就用电脑放出来看
- and I displayed them and I could see that lo,
- 我看到
- the moon of lo, was a crescent as very
- 木卫一呈新月形
- often our own moon is a crescent in the night sky.
- 就如同我们自己的月亮在夜空中往往呈新月形一样
- And I went and enhanced the brightness
- 我增加了画面的亮度
- and there appeared beside lo,
- 发现木卫一的一侧
- an object, a huge object that looked like something
- 出现一个巨大的物体
- I couldn't recognise and could never have expected
- 我没料到会看到这种情景，也不知道那是什么
- and it completely captured my attention.
- 所以看得全神贯注
- I wanted to know so badly what that was.
- 我很想知道那是什么
- I just had to ask myself 'my goodness what is that? '.
- 忍不住自问 “天啊，那是什么？”
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| eclipse | [i'klips] | 联想记忆 | ||
| spectacular | [spek'tækjulə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| extraordinary | [iks'trɔ:dnri] | 联想记忆 | ||
| planet | ['plænit] | |||
| unique | [ju:'ni:k] | 联想记忆 | ||
| capture | ['kæptʃə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| navigation | [.nævi'geiʃən] | |||
| anomaly | [ə'nɔməli] | 联想记忆 | ||
| transmit | [trænz'mit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| spacecraft | ['speiskrɑ:ft] |
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