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。

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For a month and a half, there's absolutely no Sun in Greenland because of Earth's Angle in relation to our home star.

由于地轴与我们的恒星(太阳)之间的角度问题，格陵兰每年有一个半月都完全沐浴不到阳光。

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The tomato began to decompose after half a day in the sun.

太阳晒了半天后，西红柿开始腐烂。

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Hopefully, the weather will continue to get warmer and Sam won't need to put an hour of prayers in and just keep to the mandatory half an hour a day that a sun worshipper must complete to bring warmth to the country and as an additional bonus receive an all-year round tan.

BBC: Clive Stuart-Smith column

The MySQL deal, which is slated to close in the first half of 2008, is a sign that Sun is pushing into more open-source software applications and could even enter the Linux market, the terrain of companies like Red Hat.

FORBES: Sun Snaps Up Database Firm, MySQL

The planet orbits a star about half as big as our Sun, positioned some 9, 000 light-years away.

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