During summer on the top half of Earth, our planet is actually farther from the sun than during winter, a fact owing to our non-circular orbit around the sun.
在地球的上半部分为夏季的时候，实际上这时的地球离开太阳的距离比在冬季还要远。所以会这样，是由于我们围绕太阳运行的轨道，并不是圆的。
After reaching about half of the Earth-Sun distance from the Sun, the comet should fade rapidly as it then heads out of the inner Solar System.
到达距太阳半个日地距离之后，彗星会因朝着内太阳系之外急速前进而快速变暗。
Not for sun: Alaska goes dark for half the year, and solar panels would need to be nearly vertical to prevent snow build-up, says David Lockard of the Alaska Energy Authority.
不过指的并非太阳能资源。阿拉斯加能源局的大卫•罗卡德称，该州有半年时间见不到太阳，况且太阳能板必须保持近乎垂直的状态，否则上面就会积雪（这样即便在有太阳的时候也几乎无法吸收其辐射）。
One leading theory: it came from a fusillade of comets that came screaming back in toward the sun a half-billion years or so after our planet formed.
有一种前沿理论认为：这些水是地球形成约5亿年之后，一连串呼啸撞向太阳的彗星所带来的。
But even with more than a century and a half of observations, many unresolved questions remain about the farthest planet from the sun.
不过，即使经过了一个半世纪的观测，这个距离太阳最远的行星，仍有许多尚未解决的问题。
Kepler will watch them all for three-and-a-half years and wait for the light from any of them to dim ever so slightly. That could be the sign of a planet passing in front of its sun.
开普勒号将在轨道上运行三年半，等待着观测这十万行星光线的每一丝微乎其微的变化——那也许就是有行星从恒星前经过的信号。
But the sun, as seen from Earth, is nearly as large as a little fingertip held at arm's length-a size known to astronomers as half a degree wide.
但是太阳正如我们在地球上所见，好像举起手臂，看一臂之外的指尖那样大小——对于天文学家来说也就是半度宽。
And if so, when, at what price and how would [Oracle] avoid cannibalizing [its] low-end, half-rack Oracle database machine running on Sun?
如果是这样的话，价格改如何界定？甲骨文怎样避免同自身的低端数据库发生冲突？
Tired people can be found in offices everywhere from the equator, where the sun shines down directly, to the Arctic Circle, where for half the year folks get much less direct sunlight.
从日照充足的赤道到半年都晒不到太阳的北极圈，劳累的办公室工作者随处可见。
Quanzhou city was caught by a rainfall On September 21, with half of the city under the sun and the other half shrouded in the "waterfall from the heaven".
2010年9月21日，福建省泉州市区突降大雨，市区一半阳光明媚，另一半却被“天堂瀑布”笼罩。
It is about two and a half times nearer to the sun than our earth, therefore it receives nearly seven times as much light.
它与太阳的距离与地球相比，大约是1：2 .5，因此，水星受到太阳照射的强度大约是地球的7倍。
And when they started down the hill to the graveyard only half of the sun was visible above the mesa.
待他们朝山下墓地出发时，平顶山上的太阳只能看见一半了。
Since the earth looks like a ball, the sun can shine on only half of it at a time.
答案：由于地球看上去像一个球，太阳一次只能照到它的一半。
WSG&R boasts 600 lawyers and represents around half of Silicon Valley's public companies, including Apple, Sun Microsystems and Google.
WSG&R引以为豪的600名律师和代表遍布大半个硅谷的公司，这其中包括Apple,Sun Microsystems和 Google。
Stolen half a day once in a lifetime, on Sunday afternoon nap, wake up your mood will be as bright as the afternoon sun.
人生难得偷得半日闲，在周日的午后小憩一会儿，醒来后你的心情会像午后的阳光一样灿烂。
Since the earth looks like a ball, the sun can shine on only half of it at a time.
由于地球看起来是个球形，同一时间太阳只能照到地球的一半。
A setting sun shop in the water, half howling half river red river. Poor early September, dew like pearls on a bow.
一道残阳铺水中，半江瑟瑟半江红。可怜九月初三夜，露似珍珠月似弓。
Two girls, braving scorching sun, walked the streets from the school, then a full half-hour's drive.
两个女孩，顶着炎炎烈日，从学校走到街道，那足足有半个钟头的车程。
While some are having fun doing this, others are a little bit bored after standing in the sun for half an hour.
有些人做得很开心，而有些人在太阳底下站半个钟之后则有点无聊。
Morning, the sun is like a just out of the new daughter-in-law, shyly revealing half a face.
早晨，太阳像个刚出门的新媳妇，羞答答地露出半个脸来。
Astronomers say the star is about half the size of our sun and being orbited by the two planets.
天文学家说，这颗恒星大约有我们的太阳的一半大，有两颗行星围绕着它旋转。
I know that the world must have her presence, she must be my half, my sun, I have to accommodate her and I embrace all.
我知道这个世界上必有她的存在，必有她成为我的一半、我的太阳，必有她容纳我并拥抱我的一切。
On Midsummer-eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun.
施洗约翰节前夕，阿黛勒在海村小路上采了半天的野草莓，累坏了，太阳一落山就上床睡觉。
When the north Pole is tilted toward the sun, the northern half of the earth gets a lot of sunlight.
当北极向太阳倾斜时，北半球能照到大量的阳光。
The old man's cough grew better and he sat in the sun by the southern wall of the house, always half-asleep and warm and content.
老人的咳嗽好多了，成天半醒半睡地坐在南墙根儿晒太阳，暖洋洋的，心满意足。
The old man's cough grew better and he sat in the sun by the southern wall of the house, always half-asleep and warm and content.
老人的咳嗽好多了，成天半醒半睡地坐在南墙根儿晒太阳，暖洋洋的，心满意足。
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