When the planet Mars was first observed through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was criss-crossed on earth that are viewed from an airplane.
当第一次用望远镜观测到火星时，人们从飞机上看到，火星的圆形圆盘在地球上纵横交错。
Though Jupiter is not able to draw the earth out of its course round the sun, yet it attracts the earth to some extent.
虽然木星不能够把地球从围绕太阳旋转的轨道上拉出来，但是它对地球的引力也产生了相当大的作用。
When the planet Mars was first observed through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was crisscrossed on earth that are viewed from an airplane.
当第一次用望远镜观测到火星时，人们从飞机上看到，火星的圆盘在地球上纵横交错。
The earth needs 24 hours to turn round once and get back to its starting place with the sun.
地球需要24小时才能转一圈，回到相对于太阳的起始位置。
Yet Jupiter is not without influence upon the earth; and though it is not able to draw it out of its course round the sun, yet it attracts the earth to some extent.
不过，木星也并非对地球没有影响。虽然它不能够把地球从围绕太阳旋转的轨道上拉出来，但是它对地球的引力也产生了相当大的作用。
When Columbus set sail, he apparently assumed the Earth was round, which was why he was convinced that he could get to India by going west.
哥伦布起航的时候，他显然假定地球是圆的，这样他就坚信自己可以通过向西到达印度。
The moon, by the way, is called a satellite because it goes round our earth as well as round the sun.
顺便说一下，月亮被称为卫星，是因为它围绕着我们地地球盍同时围绕太阳运转。
Both the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and the Circular Mound Altar are round, each standing on a square yard, again representing Heaven and Earth.
祈年殿与圜丘坛均为圆形，立于方形坛内，象征着天圆地方。
Even a telescope in orbit round the earth, like the very successful Hubble telescope, would not be suitable because of the dust particles iron solar system.
即使是一台放置在围绕地球的轨道上的望远镜——如非常成功的哈勃望远镜——也因为太阳系中的尘埃微粒而无法胜任。
Clumbus s contention that the earth was round turned out to be correct.
事实证明哥伦布认为地球是圆的这论点是对的.
Then imagine the difficulties of defending it against the obvious criticisms in an era before mathematically rigorous physics: why are we not flung from the Earth if it spins round so fast?
然后再想象一下在严格数学化的物理时代之前只身对抗各种显而易见的质疑的困难吧：如果地球转的这么快我们为什么没有被甩离地球？
We find that it is traveling in a circle - or very nearly a circle - round the earth, going completely round once a month, or, more exactly, once very 27 1/3 days.
我们发现月球环绕地球的轨道总是圆周形--或很近似圆周形。每一个月，或者更确切些说是每27又1/3天就环绕地球转一圈。
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
在他们四围的以色列众人听他们呼号，就都逃跑，说，恐怕地也把我们吞下去。
Essentially, the belt round the centre of the earth will get hotter and drier, while those of us who live in the north of the northern hemisphere will see more warmth but also more rain.
从本质上说，环绕地球中心的地带将越来越热，越来越干燥，而生活在北半球北部的我们将感觉到更温暖，这里的雨水也会更多。
She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.
她环顾屋内，审视着这么多年来她每周都要掸擦一遍的一切熟悉的物品，心里奇怪究竟哪来的这么多灰尘。
Round the corner things are more down-to-earth at a hostel and day-centre for the homeless (the largest in London, it is claimed) set up by a religious order, the Daughters of Charity.
然而街角不远处，在一所由宗教团体“仁爱修女会”创立的无家可归者收容所兼日间护理中心（据称为伦敦最大）里，生活却要实际得多。
Its 273-hectare pine-covered grounds have a square southern boundary and a semicircular northern one, in accordance with the old idea that the Earth was square and Heaven was round.
它占地273公顷，遍植松树，南边以方形为界，北方则以半圆形为界，这与“天圆地方”这种古老的观念相吻合。
While there are special times turn around the short round is an example, one is desirable to have managers who live earth behind.
但是有特使时期,就是一个例子，有人渴望使用落后的经理。
The Earth is round, but we walk actually on the parallel line which two cannot intersect cannot surmount.
地球是圆的，而我们却偏偏走在两条不能相交也不能跨越的平行线上。
Before it was proven that the earth was round, it was a well-known" fact" that it was flat.
在地球没有被证明是圆的以前，人们普遍接受的“事实”是：它是扁平的。
Our earth turns on its axis once in every twenty-four hours, and goes also round the sun once a year.
地球围绕自己的轴线旋转为每24小时一周，即一天；地球环绕太阳一次的时间为一年。
You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis.
要知道地球绕轴转一回要用二十四个钟头。
Contrary to what is often thought, the earth does not move round in the empty space.
与通常的想法相反，地球并不是空无一物的空间中运行的。
All I'm saying is, if the earth is round, how he gonna jump like that?
我想所要说的是，如果地球是圆的，他怎么能这样跳？
When Columbus first presented his hypothesis that the earth is round, very few believed it.
当哥伦布第一次提出地球是圆的假设时，很少有人相信它。
When Columbus first presented his hypothesis that the earth is round, very few believed it.
当哥伦布第一次提出地球是圆的假设时，很少有人相信它。
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