Before the invention of artificial light, the moon had greater social impact.

在人造光源发明之前，月亮对人类社会的影响更大。

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Was that what the moon had asked of them?

是月亮要求她们这么做的吗？

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The moon had gone down, but the sun had not yet risen, and the sky appeared a sheet of darkling blue. Apart from night-prowlers, all was asleep.

秋天的后半夜，月亮下去了，太阳还没有出，只剩下一片乌蓝的天；除了夜游的东西，什么都睡着。

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He said about one hundred kilograms of water had been found in the material ejected by the moon crash.

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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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In September, NASA scientists had announced the discovery of water molecules mainly in the moon's extreme northern and southern areas.

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Already the moon had risen, a flake of waxy alabaster in a blue sky thin with light.

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Before Max was even tired, the moon had fallen through the water and the sun had risen to replace it.

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For a second, it seemed as if the moon had crumbled like a meringue, but instead it rested there, half in and half out of the jaws of the bucket.

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