No-one had found a way to calculate accurate distances to the planets from the Earth.

还没有人找到方法来计算从地球到行星的精确距离。

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But such transits have paved the way for what might prove to be one of the most vital breakthroughs in the cosmos—detecting Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.

但是这样的凌日现象已经为被证明可能是宇宙中最重要的突破之一的说法铺平了道路，这个说法即找到那些围绕其他恒星轨道公转的和地球大小相似的行星。

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On his way back to the Earth, the spacecraft was out of control.

在他们返回地球的途中，宇宙飞船开始失去控制。

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much like a dog on Earth. I walked close to the creature and began speaking in much the same way I would speak to a dog or other animal on Earth.

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I think that his deadpan way of bringing things down to earth when they get a little too highfalutin' involves the skill of a genuine stand-up comic.

我认为他是真的有漫画人物的效果,当他总是面无表情的’,让那些过分骄傲的人回归现实。

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That made it very beautiful and there's no way in God's earth that we could replicate that to the Western system of musical notation.

那使得它十分美丽,我们却没有任何办法,用西方的乐谱方法,再现这样的音乐

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"The Earth is getting pulled and tugged at regular periods, but we observe a difference in the way the Earth responds to these tugs and pulls and what we predict, " Buffett said.

BBC: Earth's wobbles reveal deep secrets

Centaurus A is immense, perhaps 50 times larger than the Milky Way, home to the Earth and about 100 billion stars.

BBC: Hubble spies black hole gobbling galaxy

For years, he had been making the case that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) would be the best way to test for the existence of Earth-like DNA on Mars.

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