People often start counting "nine cold periods" starting from winter solstice.
人们通常从冬至开始计算“九个寒冷期”。
When winter solstice comes, it brings the shortest days of the year and the longest nights.
当冬至到来的时候，随之而来的是一年中最短的白昼和最长的黑夜。
They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, lesser cold and greater cold.
它们是：立冬、小雪、大雪、冬至、小寒和大寒。
Not only will you have great music in the Secret Solstice, but you can also visit some old museums.
在这个神秘的（夏）至，你不仅可以欣赏到美妙的音乐，还可以参观一些古老的博物馆。
According to scientific results, on Winter solstice, a right angle is formed by the sun and the tropic of carpricorn.
根据科学的结果，在冬至，太阳和南回归线形成了一个直角。
The days get shorter after the Summer Solstice.
过了夏至，天就开始变短。
The total lunar eclipse coincided with the date of the December Solstice.
这次月全食恰好发生在冬至日。
For thousands of years, cultures the world over feted the winter solstice as the moment of the sun's return, the turning of the wintry tide.
在几千年中，世界各地的文化都广泛庆祝冬至日，因为它是太阳回归的日子，是冬季潮汐变更方向的日子。
Alaska, too, will have the full moon and the solstice occur on these respective dates, but in a time zone one hour later than Hawaii.
还有阿拉斯加，满月和至日也出现在各自不同的时间，只不过时区上比夏威夷晚了一个小时。
Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the official beginning of winter.
冬至在北半球是一年里最短的一天，同时也标志着冬天正式开始。
At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand dune on the eastern edge of the Namib Desert.
就在冬至前三周，晨曦时分，纳米比亚大沙漠的东边的沙丘上，最后一缕灰色的晨雾衬着粉色的天空蜿蜒屈曲。
So in the north, the solstice day has the shortest length of time between sunrise and sunset and fewest hours of daylight.
所以在北半球，冬至日的白天是最短的，只有几个小时而已。
The last time a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice, astronomer Galileo Galilei was languishing under house arrest for suggesting the Earth circled the sun.
上次月全食发生在冬至期间的时候，天文学家伽利略正因为自己提出“日心说”理论而被软禁着。
France marks the summer solstice with the fete DE la Musique, in which musicians play for nothing in the open air, and the Paris air Show begins.
法国夏至音乐节，音乐家户外无偿演奏，同时巴黎航展开幕。
Then when was the last time that we had a total lunar eclipse occur on the same date as the winter solstice?
那么上一次人类在冬至时节看到月全食是什么时候呢？
This year, it was given another life extension until 2017 to keep exploring until Saturn’s northern hemisphere summer solstice.
今年，卡西尼号的服役时间又被进一步延长至2017年，它将一直保持探索状态直至土星北半球的夏至开始。
Finally, this raises the question — prior to 2010, when was the last time that we had a total lunar eclipse occur on the same calendar date as the winter solstice?
最后，这又产生了一个问题——2010年以前，最后一次出现和冬至相同的日期发生月全食是什么时候呢？
Once every 25, 800 years, the sun lines up with the centre of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.
每过25 800年，在冬至日，太阳都将与银河系的中心重合，太阳的最低点在地平线上。
The solstice comes and goes, but the Sami reindeer herders are too busy to pay much attention.
夏至来了又走了，但萨米族人忙得注意不到这些。
Solstice is the name of the new baby giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo. It was born in December, on winter solstice.
索斯提斯（Solstice 中文意思为至日）是圣路易斯动物园（St. Louis Zoo）新生小长颈鹿的名字，它生于12月的冬至那天，因此得名。
For example, if you live in Honolulu, this December's full moon does not fall on the date of the solstice.
例如，如果你生活在檀香山，12月的满月不会出现在至日这一天。
The summer solstice is the first official day of summer and the longest day of the year. Getty Images / Mario Tama
夏至是夏天正式开始的第一天，也是一年之中时间最长的一天。
The sun is rising behind the Stonehenge monument in England, during the summer solstice shortly after 04:52 am, Monday, June 21, 2010.
2010年6月21日周一的夏至凌晨4：52分，太阳从英格兰的巨石阵后面冉冉升起。
The summer solstice that falls this year on June 21 marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, sunlight-wise.
夏至的来临使6月21日成为北半球今年白昼最长的一天——阳光又在玩游戏。
So, how often does the December full moon coincide with the solstice?
那么，12月的满月与至日重合有多频繁呢？
The sun's highest point in the sky, seen in this analemma, occurs during the summer solstice, while its lowest point is during winter solstice.
夏至期间，你能看到从8字曲线中看到的太阳在空中最高点，在冬至期间能够看到其最低点。
For the Americas, this eclipse actually occurred during the evening of Dec. 20, while the solstice occurred on the following day.
对美国人来说，这次月全食实际上发生在12月20日夜间，而至日则在随后的一天来到。
Thelast total lunar eclipse visible from the U.S. occurred on Dec. 21, 2010, which coincided with winter solstice and was widely observed.
最近一次在美国可见的月全食发生在2010年12月21日，那天恰巧是冬至，所以月食能够被大多数地区观察到。
Thelast total lunar eclipse visible from the U.S. occurred on Dec. 21, 2010, which coincided with winter solstice and was widely observed.
最近一次在美国可见的月全食发生在2010年12月21日，那天恰巧是冬至，所以月食能够被大多数地区观察到。
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