The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding organisms in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.
这个发现对我们对生命的理解，对外星生命与地球生命不必类似的可能性都有重大的启发意义。
Since the lifetime of a planet like ours is several billion years, we can expect that, if other civilisations do survive in our galaxy, their ages will range from zero to several billion years.
由于我们这样的行星的寿命是几十亿年，我们可以预测，如果我们星系中有其他生物生存，它们的年龄将从零到几十亿岁不等。
Our planet Earth, together with other planets, revolve around our Sun in what is called our Solar system.
我们的行星地球，连同其他行星，围绕我们的太阳旋转，这就是我们的太阳系。
The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than earth.
它的表面大部分是在过去十亿年里形成的，使得它比地球以外的任何岩石行星都更新鲜活跃。
This waste is killing the planet to the extent that even at the micro-level plastic fragments are being found in the bodies of fish and other animals.
这些废弃物正在毁灭地球，到了甚至在鱼和其他动物的身体里也发现了微小的塑料碎片的程度。
Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner.
林木和其他类植物可以维持星球适宜温度，但是大气中二氧化碳浓度的增加会减低这种调节作用。
One is an enormous country in Asia. The other is a nation that spans the planet.
一个是幅员辽阔的亚洲国家，另一个是遍布全球的民族。
The sheer amount of biomass now walking around the planet in the form of humans and livestock handily outweighs that of all other large animals.
地球上蹦跶的人类和他们的家禽总量已经超过了其他大型生物的总和。
In other variations, a planet named Nibiru crashes into us or the Earth's magnetic field flips.
其他的版本还有名为Nibiru的行星撞向我们或者地球磁场翻转等灾难。
We have an awful track record of living in harmony with the other species' on our own planet. Remember "District 9"'s "Prawns, " poor guys.
我们有一个在我们自己的星球上与其他物种和谐相处的极好的过往记录。
ScienceDaily (May 4, 2010) - Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner.
每日科学(5月4日，2010)—树木及其他植物都有助地球保持凉快，但在空气中上升的二氧化碳浓度正降低这个全球空气调节器的作用。
ScienceDaily (May 4, 2010) -trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner.
每日科学(5月4日，2010)—树木及其他植物都有助地球保持凉快，但在空气中上升的二氧化碳浓度正降低这个全球空气调节器的作用。
Our planet Earth, together with other planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto revolve around our Sun in what is called our Solar system.
我们的地球和其他行星——水星、金星、火星、木星、土星、天王星、海王星、冥王星一起围绕着太阳旋转，构成所谓的太阳系。
The space elevator is exactly what its name says it is: a long cable anchored at one end to the ground and at the other end high in space, protruding from the planet like a spoke in a rotating orange.
顾名思义，太空升降梯是一根很长的电缆固定在地面的一端，另一端高高地延伸到太空中，就像一条从旋转的橙子中伸出的辐条那样伸出地球。
Arsenic is an element poisonous to every other living creature in the planet except for a few specialized microscopic creatures.
砷是一种对地球上所有其他生物有毒的元素，除了对少数特别的极小的生物。
Hawking says the first blow to Newton's belief that the universe could not have arisen from chaos was the observation in 1992 of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun.
霍金说，对于牛顿的宇宙不可能从混沌中诞生这一理念的第一次打击是在1992年，当时观测到了一颗行星在绕着一颗并非我们的太阳的恒星运行。
One side of the planet always faces its star and basks in perpetual daylight, while the other is in perpetual darkness.
它有一面一直是面向红矮星，因此处于永恒的白昼，而另一面则处于极夜状态。
We all need each other, but mutual respect has to be accorded in order for this planet and its people to experience, once again, brotherhood, love, peace, and the abundant life for all.
我们都相互依赖，但只有相互尊重才能让这个星球和星球上的人们再次感受到大家之间的兄弟情谊，爱，和平，和富足的生活。
On the other hand, "we can't prove there is no fifth planet." No one yet has the required precision in their observations to prove the absence of such a small exoplanet, he notes.
另外一方面，他写到“我们不能证明没有第五颗行星”，还没有人要求他们观测的精确性，以证明这个小型外系行星的缺乏。
"This one we caught right before it went off the planet, but other species surely we didn't catch in time," Mendelson said in a telephone interview.
“这也是我们抓住时机保护它们以免从这个星球上消失，但其他物种当然，很遗憾我们没有及时救助，”门德尔松在接受电话采访时说。
Specks form into clumps, these collide with other clumps, and the process continues until all the matter in any given orbit is concentrated into one object—a planet.
微粒形成团块，团块之间相互碰撞，周而复始直到给定轨道上的所有物质集中成一个物体——行星。
Ken Croswell: It would confer planet-hood not just on Pluto but on so many other things too, probably dozens - if not hundreds - of other objects in the solar system.
肯恩·克罗斯维尔：按照这样的定义，不仅冥王星可以称得上行星，太阳系中符合条件的星体即使没有上百个，也有数十个了。
The other three are water, methane and oxygen - and now oxygen is the only one left to be observed in the atmosphere of a planet outside the Solar System.
另外三个生命标志是水、甲烷和氧气，然而现在只有氧气还未在太阳系之外的行星中被发现。
Just as Mercury is locked facing the sun, the planet is tidally locked to its star, so that one side basks in perpetual daylight, while the other side remains in darkness.
与水星总有一半固定地面对太阳相似，该行星总是始终保持一面朝向恒星，使得星球的一半永久处于阳光之中，而另一半则永久位于黑暗。
She's also interested in determining what conditions other than a liquid ocean might help initiate life on a terrestrial planet.
她也有兴趣找出什么样的环境比陆地行星上的液体海洋更能有助于产生生命。
After millenniums of musings and a century of failed attempts, astronomers first detected an exoplanet, a planet orbiting a normal star other than the Sun, in 1995.
经过几千年的沉思冥想和百年来的失败尝试，天文学家于1995年初次探测到了一外部行星，此行星绕着非太阳的一正常恒星的轨道运行。
In other words, taking care of your people and the planet ultimately translate into profit and the more tangible benefits of shareholder value, increased revenue, access to capital and market growth.
换句话说，照顾好你的员工和我们的地球，最终这会变成公司的盈利和股东更大的收益，会变成增加的利润、更广泛的资金来源和的市场占有率的增长。
It could be that the planet managed to cling onto a moon when all the other gas giants in our solar system had already lost theirs.
可能是因为在我们太阳系的其他气态巨星已经失去自己的卫星的时候土星捕获了一个月亮。
Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star, maybe in a different galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science.
假设在遥远的星系的一颗行星上存在着至少和我们一样聪明的智慧生物，他们同样对科学感兴趣。
Only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planet in the sky make sense.
只有当你把太阳放在那个位置上，天空中其他行星的运动才能说得清楚。
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