The total energy reaching Earth from the sun rises and falls by just one tenth of one percent across this solar cycle.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

He'd been imprisoned for his intellectual daring and affirming the Copernican view that the earth orbited around the sun.

因他对哥白尼的地心说的大胆的,认可和支持而被软禁着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Abode is sun-dried earth and straw.

VOA: special.2009.03.30