The nearest star to earth is about 4 light years away.

地球离最近的恒星大约为4光年。

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That takes the focus away from the natural variations in the earth climate, like the Ice Age, right?

那就把人们的注意力从地球气候的自然变化上转移开了，比如冰河时代，对吧？

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If the Sun was at the center of the universe, things would fall toward the Sun and away from the Earth, which of course they didn't.

如果太阳在宇宙的中心，物体就会离开地球向太阳落去，但事实显然没有。

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Villagers chanted triumphant slogans as bulldozers ploughed away the earth ramparts that the Israelis had made to cut the road to the village.

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Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.

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The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.

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