This similarity in density has long prompted speculation that the Moon split away from a rapidly rotating Earth, but this idea founders on two observations.

长期以来，这种密度上的相似性促使人们猜测月球是从快速旋转的地球上分裂出来的，但这种想法创始于两次观测。

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One problem with the collision hypothesis is the question of how a satellite formed in this way could have settled into the nearly circular orbit that the Moon has today.

碰撞假说的一个问题是，以这种方式形成的卫星是如何在月球现在的近乎圆形的轨道上运行的。

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This shows that the moon gives no light of its own.

这就表明了月球本身是下发光的。

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If his daughter saw it, she would know that the moon on her neck was not really the moon.

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Now you may remember what Geoffrey Hartman had argued that the moon represents the power of divine providence, and there's a lot of ways in which this reading makes sense.

你们可能还记得哈特曼曾经争论过,月亮代表的是神圣的天命的力量，有很多理解这段的方式都是有意义的。

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The question of providential justice is of course of primary significance to Milton's poem, but Hartman goes on to say that the moon, which reminds us of a calm and perfect sense of Providence, also works to guarantee the principal of free will.

这里，关于天佑的公平的问题,是其对于弥尔顿的诗最基本的重要性，但是哈特曼接着又说月亮是，这提醒了我们天意的冷静和完美感，月亮在这儿也是为了保障自由意志的原则。

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That the moon looks good through the limbs of the chinaberry tree?

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That the moon looks good and the stars still refuse to shine?

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He says that the moon holds about 1 million tons of helium-3.

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