The article appeared in the evening edition of 'The Mercury'.
这篇文章刊登在《信使报》的晚间版上。
The planets, in order of their distance from the Sun, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
按照它们与太阳的距离排列，这些行星分别是水星、金星、地球、火星、木星、土星、天王星、海王星和冥王星。
In November 1677, Halley observed a transit of the innermost planet, Mercury, from the desolate island of St Helena in the South Pacific.
1677年11月，哈雷在南太平洋荒凉的圣赫勒拿岛上观测到了水星（最靠近太阳的行星）的凌日现象。
Do you remember that the element mercury was used in the thermometers of your parents' generation?
你还记得在你父母那一代的温度计中使用的水银元素吗?
The orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn fit neatly into this pattern; Uranus, discovered in 1781, also obeyed the law.
水星、金星、地球、火星、木星和土星的轨道恰好符合这种模式；1781年发现的天王星也同样符合该定律。
But there was a problem: transits of Venus, unlike those of Mercury, are rare, occurring in pairs roughly eight years apart every hundred or so years.
但有一个问题：和水星凌日不同的是，金星凌日是罕见的，大约每隔一百年会成对出现八年的时间。
Mercury will retrograde in your houses of work and committed relationships, so this is where you will need to reflect on recent events and make another attempt to improve things.
水星会在你命盘中掌管工作和承诺的关系的部分逆行，所以你会需要好好考虑最近发生的事件并尝试作出改进。
This time, with Mercury spending so much of its backward time in Taurus, you will feel the slowdowns more.
因为水星逆行代表了风向的改变。这次水星有大量的时间在金牛座逆行，你可能会更需要减速。
Osram said it used the latest technology employing solid mercury to maintain high standards of industrial hygiene equivalent to those in Germany.
欧司朗公司说它运用最新科技来使用固态水银以达到和德国等同的工业卫生高标准。
Amazingly, nearly one-third of toys tested in the us reportedly have medium to high levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, and other potentially dangerous chemicals.
令人难以置信的是，据报道在美国几乎三分之一被测试的玩具都含有中到高度的铅、镉、汞，以及其他有着潜在危险的化学物质。
The potential for litigation may be greatest in the ruined mountain landscape of Guizhou province in the southwest, where mercury has been mined for centuries.
诉讼可能性最高的地方是在西南贵州省的被破坏了的山区，在那儿开采水银已经有几个世纪之久。
But the Sunday Times found that in this remote corner of a poverty-stricken province, the European demand for mercury had brought the miners back.
但是星期日泰晤士报记者发现，欧洲对水银的需求使得这个贫困省份穷乡僻壤的矿工又回来了。
The toxic buildup of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals in the soil and water near coal plants and smelting factories is not usually measured.
火电厂和冶炼工厂附近的土和水中所溶解了来自于铅，汞及其他重金属的毒性物质，这些毒性物质通常很难测量。
The form of mercury used in skin lightening soaps and creams is inorganic mercury.
美白香皂和面霜中所使用的汞是无机形式的汞。
There is no limit in Peru to imports of mercury. And the new study found an even stronger link between gold prices and mercury imports into Peru than between gold prices and deforestation.
秘鲁进口水银是没有限制的，新的研究发现金价与秘鲁水银进口量之间的关系甚至要高于水土流失与金价的关系。
On the other hand, in the case of great health dangers of modern times - mercury, lead, tobacco, asbestos - journalists were too slow to blow the whistle.
另一方面，水银，铅，烟草，石棉，当今社会还有诸如此类许许多多的健康威胁，新闻记者都无法予以及时揭露。
In the US, mercury levels in the environment have been increasing at a rate of 1.5% each year since 1970.
在美国，环境中的汞含量不断增加，自1970年以来每年的增长率为1.5%。
In December 2009, the first high-resolution global map of Mercury was made publicly available.
在2009年12月，第一张高分辨率的水星全球地图被公开发布。
Until 1781 there were only five planets known to affect us in the minds of astrologers: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
直到1781年，占星学里所知的影响我们的行星只有5颗：水星、金星、火星、木星和土星。
The results, published in a package of seven papers in Friday's edition of the journal Science, may force scientists to throw out many ideas about how Mercury formed.
这个结果，以一系列7篇论文的形式发表在周五出版的《科学杂志》，它可能迫使科学家抛却关于水星如何形成的许多固有想法。
MESSENGER is now in the last stages of multiple gravity-assist flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury, en route to an insertion into orbit around Mercury in March of 2011.
目前“信使号”探测器已经到达了地球、金星、水星多重引力助力飞行的最后一个阶段，并将于2009年9月29号进行第三次飞越最终将在2011年3月正式进入水星轨道。
Callisto is about 3,000 miles in diameter (about the size of Mercury).
木星4直径约为3 000英里(约相当于水星的尺寸)。
Do you remember that the element mercury was used in the thermometers of your parents' generation, before digital thermometers were invented?
你是否记得在数字体温计发明前，水银在你父母亲那个时代是用来制造体温计的？
Researchers have found high levels of mercury in fish caught in Madre DE Dios.
研究人员在马代拉河捕获的鱼中发现高水平的含汞量。
Incineration of heavy metals or materials with high metal content (in particular lead, mercury and cadmium) can lead to the spread of toxic metals in the environment.
焚烧重金属或金属含量高的材料(尤其是铅、汞和镉)可能使有毒金属传播到环境中。
They are among the worst despoilers of Colombia's environment, releasing mercury in rivers and clearing forest.
他们是哥伦比亚最恶劣的破坏环境者之一，在河川里倾倒水银并任意砍伐森林。
On the basis of the foregoing, the GACVS concluded that the most recent pharmacokinetic and developmental studies do not support concerns over the safety of thiomersal (ethyl mercury) in vaccines.
基于以上所述，GACVS得出结论认为，最近的药代动力学和发育学研究结果并不支持疫苗所含硫柳汞(乙基汞)存在安全性问题的说法。
Originally, the theory was able to account for peculiarities in the orbit of Mercury and the bending of light by the Sun, both unexplained in Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.
最初，该理论能够用来说明水星独特运行轨道[译者注]和太阳光的弯曲，这两种情况是牛顿引力理论所无法解释的。
In fact, in the notes we have an example of how much it changes for mercury.
实际上在讲义中我们有一个例子，关于水银的。
In fact, in the notes we have an example of how much it changes for mercury.
实际上在讲义中我们有一个例子，关于水银的。
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