对我来说，是和家人去冰岛看北极光。
For me, it was a trip to Iceland with my family to see the Northern Lights.
她站在阳台上，像北极光一样闪闪发光。
She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines.
要看到北极光需要耐心和好运气。
To see the northern lights requires patience and good fortune.
尽管天气条件很好，北极光却是来无影去无踪。
Even with perfect viewing conditions, the lights are notoriously hit or miss.
这就是为什么人们称之为北极光。
从十月至三月在挪威北部可看见北极光。
The northern lights are visible in northern Norway from October to March.
北极光。
由于此地离北极如此之近，北极光在这里常常出现。
The northern lights are often visible here because it is so close to the North Pole.
与人们的共识相反，北极光并非仅仅是北极冬季里的光亮现象。
Contrary to widely held belief, the aurora borealis is not strictly a phenomenon of winter lights in the Arctic.
北极光是地球上比较容易见到的最壮观的自然现象之一。
The Northern Lights are effortlessly one of Earth's most visually striking natural spectacles.
北极光由一种不寻常的天气现象所形成，使黑夜的空中出现明亮的色彩。
The northern lights result from an unusual weather phenomenon that creates bright colors in the night sky.
由于这些过程发生在两个半球，因此北极光和南极光就出现了。
Since these processes occur above the two hemispheres, both the Northern and the Southern light are created.
用早餐的时候，和我们在山路上相撞过的职员问我们看见了北极光没有。
At breakfast, the employee we had bumped into on the hill asked, "So, did you see the lights?"
被称为南极光，这种飘动发光的带子通常在北半球高纬度也能看到，称北极光。
Known as aurora australis or southern lights, the shifting, luminous bands are commonly seen at high northern latitudes as well, there known as the aurora borealis or northern lights.
著名的夜间极光(北面为北极光，南面为南极光)是粒子从尾部流入所造成的结果。
The famous night-time auroras (borealis in the north, australis in the south) are the result of particles streaming in from the tail.
她说，“你看，北极光变幻莫测，但是它在八月份的时候活动非常频繁。”
"You see, they are very unpredictable," she said. "they were very active in late August, though."
在浩瀚的苍野下，一个里面亮着光的旅行帐篷好似星际之船行进在北极光中。
With infinite wilderness overhead, a traveler's tent lit from within turns into a starship navigating the northern lights.
随着9月23日秋分的来临，夜晚越来越长，观测北极光的最佳季节开始了。
As the September 23rd equinox approaches, nights grow longer and a favorable season for aurora begins.
在芬兰语中，北极光则被称为"revontulet"，直译过来就是“狐狸之火”。
The Finns named the northern lights revolution, or fox fires.
这样古怪如魂的北极光可以在瑞典(如图)，加拿大和其它些北极圈内的地区看到。
Good places to see the strange haunting northern Lights include Sweden (pictured), northern Canada, and other areas beyond the Arctic Circle.
从北部高纬度地区看到的这些迷人的北方的光，也被称为北极光，正慢慢变成更加熟悉的景象。
From high northern latitudes these mesmerizing northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, are becoming a more familiar sight.
比如，绿色北极光源自于60到120英里(100到200公里)高的氧原子的碰撞。
For example, the green aurora pictured was the result of oxygen-atom collisions about 60 to 120 miles (100 to 200 kilometers) up.
2月21日，在挪威北部Tromso附近一个叫Ersfjordbotn的村庄观测到的北极光。
The aurora borealis, or northern Lights, are seen in the sky above the village of Ersfjordbotn near Tromso in northern Norway on Feb. 21.
天文学家很难有机会能同时观测到土星的两极，这意味着他们能同时研究的北极光和南极光。
Astronomers had a rare chance to view Saturn with its rings edge on. It meant they could study the planet's Northern and Southern lights.
9月15日晨挪威ersfjord上空，三日前太阳释放的带电粒子引发了短暂的北极光。
Sparked by charged particles that had been ejected by the sun three days earlier, an aurora borealis streaks into view in the wee hours of September 15 over Ersfjord, Norway.
但是，如果北极光恰好出现在正在喷发的冰岛火山上空，那么这景象就如照片所现，可谓惊艳绝人。
But when they shine over an eruption at the Icelandic volcano, the results are stunning, as these pictures show.
航行进入挪威的荒野，在那里，你可以在雅尔峡湾抓螃蟹，在希尔克内斯骑雪地摩托，沿途也许还能看到北极光。
Sail into the Norwegian wilderness where you can hunt for crabs in Jarfjord, go snowmobiling in Kirkenes and maybe catch the northern lights along the way.
这个地区的居民每年能看到数十次北极光，而那些居住在更北边的巴罗角的人们更可以看到上百次之多。
Residents of the region witness dozens of auroras yearly; those in the Point Barrow area farther north see as many as a hundred.
这些带电粒子形成的粒子云（又叫太阳风）在14和15日掠过地球磁场，造就了观察北极光的美妙时刻。
The southern part of the particle cloud, or solar wind, grazed Earth's magnetic field on the 14th and 15th, resulting in a particularly good night for aurorae.
在左面穿透北极光依然闪亮的是著名的北方星座——北斗七星，在右面较远地方闪耀的是更紧凑的昴宿星团。
Brighter stars peering through the auroral glow at the left form the recognizable northern asterism, the Big Dipper. A more compact Pleiades star cluster shines at the far right.
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