When you analyze this light, you can figure out their distance from the Earth, and identify what they are made of, determine their chemical composition.

当你分析这些光的时候，你可以计算出它们与地球的距离，并确定它们由什么构成，查明它们的化学成分。

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A figure stood in the doorway, silhouetted against the light.

门口站着一个人，屋里的亮光映衬出他的轮廓。

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Even if you spotted something suggesting a city in space, you'd still have to figure out whether the light was artificial - alien-made, in other words - or simply reflected back from the sun.

即使你在宇宙空间里发现了些什么，你还是需要分辨这些光是否人造——外星人造的，还是说，它仅仅是反射的阳光。

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So that means we're going to need to figure out what is the energy per photon that's emitted by that UV light.

所以那意味着我们将需要,计算出从紫外光源发射出的,每个光子的能量。

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And sometimes it's a matter of factors that you need to figure out what it is, and maybe it's that there's extra light in the room we don't know about.

而且有时候它是,需要计算的一个因素，有时候这个房间里可能有,我们未知的额外的光。

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This suggests an obvious criticism: by providing the light-bulb figure, the researchers primed their subjects to underestimate energy consumption.

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Reiche explained how each different version of the Skylanders characters has a unique pose (for example Jet-Vac here is available as a standard figure or this light-core version).

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Though Madoff was little known to the public before his fraud came to light, Wilpon and Katz point out that he was a respected figure in the securities industry.

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