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纳金·考克斯是第一代火星人。作为美国航天局喷气推进实验室的一名航天器工程师，考克斯工作的团队操控着美国在火星的巡游者探测器。但是在另一个星球朝九晚五的上班很特别，尤其是这个星球还比地球多了40分钟，是很有意思也极具挑战的工作。
adj. 哀伤的，可怜的
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- So we have the watches and the language, and you're detecting a theme here, right?
- 我们有特制的手表和专门的语言，现在你们明白了吧？
- So that we don't get confused. But even the Earth daylight could confuse us.
- 这样我们不再搞混了。但是连地球的阳光，也会使我们感到困扰。
- If you think that right now, you've come to work and it's the middle of the Martian night
- 试想，你现在要来上班，现在是火星的午夜，
- and there's light streaming in from the windows that's going to be confusing as well.
- 但是窗外却有很多阳光，这也会使你感到困惑。
- So you can see from this image of the control room that all of the blinds are down.
- 你能从这张控制室的照片看出，所有的百叶窗全落了下来。
- So that there's no light to distract us.
- 所以就没有阳光来干扰我们。
- The blinds went down all over the building about a week before landing, and they didn't go up until we went off Mars time.
- 在登陆前，百叶窗会持续落下来一周，直到我们不再用火星时间，它们才会被拉起来。
- So this also works for the house, for at home.
- 在家里也如此。
- I've been on Mars time three times, and my husband is like, OK, we're getting ready for Mars time.
- 我这样依照火星时间工作了三次，每次我丈夫就说：“好吧，我们准备好要过火星时间咯。”
- And so he'll put foil all over the windows and dark curtains and shades because it also affects your families.
- 于是他会在窗户上贴上锡纸，换上暗的窗帘和百叶窗，因为它同时也会影响你的家庭成员们。
- And so here I was living in kind of this darkened environment, but so was he.
- 他只能陪着我一起生活在这种黑暗的环境下。
- And he'd gotten used to it.
- 他也渐渐习惯了。
- But then I would get these plaintive emails from him when he was at work.
- 但是当他在工作时，会发给我一些可怜兮兮的邮件。
- Should I come home? Are you awake? What time is it on Mars?
- 我能回家么？你醒了么？现在是火星几点？
- And I decided, OK, so he needs a Mars watch.
- 然后我觉得他也需要一只火星时间的手表。
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