I think that at 11 p.m. I was looking north at the Big Dipper, not south toward her house.

我回想起在晚上11点钟的时候，我正朝北方眺望北斗星，没有朝南面她家的方向看。

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That night the Milky Way choked the sky, and we couldn't find the Big Dipper in the twinkling throng.

那天晚上，银河系塞满了整个天空，而我们在众多闪耀的星星中无法找到北斗七星。

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More than half the world's population lives in cities, the most light-polluted of which prevent even the Big Dipper from being seen.

超过半数的地球人口生活在城市，那些光污染最为严重的城市甚至连北斗七星也看不到。

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It should be about as bright as the stars in the Big Dipper.

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