Adding to the oddities, in 1978 scientists announced they'd found a moon of Pluto—but one that's almost half its size, making it the largest moon in relation to its parent body.

更奇怪的是，在1978年科学家宣传他们发现了一颗冥王星的卫星，它的体积居然达到冥王星体积的一半，这颗卫星也就成为了已知卫星中与其母星体积相比最大的一颗。

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With a spatula... flip the omelet in half... so it looks like a half moon.

用锅铲翻蛋饼的另一半…让其看起来像半个月亮。

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On some nights, half the world will be able to stare up at a full Moon.

在某些夜晚，世界上一半的人都可以抬头看到满月。

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During the two-and-a-half hour moon walk, the astronauts frolicked in the weightlessness of outer space and planted an American flag in the lunar surface.

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The bay sits at the base of a gorse and hawthorn-laden cliff valley, with a half-moon of white sand looking out over the water.

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Standing in our front yard watching a half moon over the Western horizon, I remember wondering whether the crippled Apollo 13 Command Module would ever see splashdown.

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