They get projected on surfaces, according to how far the surface is away; [up close] I get tiny little tiny letters and if I look at the sky, they're huge.

它们就像在表面上的投影，根据距离表面有多远而定；近距离我只看到很小的字母，但比如我看着天它们就很巨大。

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Unemployment: not having, or losing, a job; not having enough; losing their home — When you live close to the edge, destitution is never far away.

失业：未就业，或丢失工作；所得很少；失去家庭——在生活接近危机的时刻，距离一无所有就不远了。

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The planet is so far away, spaceships travelling close to the speed of light would take 20 years to make the journey.

这颗行星过于遥远，以接近光速飞行的宇宙飞船都要花费20年时间才能抵达。

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So, I want to contrast that with another concept that seemed to be opposing ideas, and that is thinking about not how far away the most probable radius is, but thinking about how close an electron can get to the nucleus if it's actually in that orbital.

我要将它和另外一个,看起来相反的概念相比较，我们不是考虑,最可能半径离原子核有多远，而是考虑如果电子在那个轨道上,能多接近原子核。

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But they also depend on how far away it is, how fast it is drifting by, and how close it is to the line of sight.

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