Bilingual Vocabulary Flashcards

noun · xīng zuò

A group of stars people see as a shape or story.

人們看成圖形或故事的一群星星。

Orion is a constellation known across many cultures.

獵戶座是許多文化都認得的星座。

noun (Chinese) · běi dǒu qī xīng

The Northern Dipper — seven stars used as a sky clock and compass.

北斗七星，可作天空的時鐘與指南。

斗柄東指，天下皆春 — when the Dipper's handle points east, spring has come.

斗柄東指，天下皆春。

noun · jí guāng

Curtains of light made when solar particles meet our atmosphere.

太陽粒子與大氣相遇時形成的光幕。

Kiuguyat is the Iñupiaq name for the aurora.

Kiuguyat 是極光的伊努皮亞克名字。

noun · guǐ dào

The curved path one body travels around another.

一個天體繞另一個天體運行的路徑。

Earth completes one orbit in a year.

地球一年完成一次公轉。

noun · dì zhóu

The imaginary line a planet spins around.

行星自轉所繞的假想線。

Earth's tilted axis is why we have seasons.

地軸傾斜造就了四季。

noun phrase · yuè xiàng

The changing shape of the lit part of the moon.

月亮被照亮部分不斷變化的形狀。

The lunar calendar counts months by lunar phase.

農曆以月相計算月份。

noun · shí

When one body passes into another's shadow.

一個天體進入另一個天體的陰影。

A lunar eclipse turns the moon copper red.

月食會讓月亮變成銅紅色。

noun · liú xīng

A bit of space rock burning bright as it enters the air.

進入大氣層時燃燒發光的太空碎片。

We counted meteors during the August shower.

八月流星雨時我們數了流星。

noun · xīng xì

A huge island of stars, gas, and dust held by gravity.

由重力維繫的巨大恆星、氣體與塵埃系統。

The Milky Way is our home galaxy — 銀河.

銀河是我們所在的星系。

adjective · tiān shàng de

Belonging to the sky or outer space.

屬於天空或太空的。

Both cultures map celestial motion onto daily life.

兩種文化都把天體運行對應到日常生活。

noun · tiān dǐng

The point in the sky directly above you.

正上方的天空位置。

At noon the summer sun nears its zenith.

正午時夏日的太陽接近天頂。

noun · dì píng xiàn

The line where sky seems to meet land or sea.

天空與陸地或海面相接的線。

In winter the sun only grazes the horizon.

冬天太陽只擦過地平線。

noun · dǎo háng

Finding your way using stars, land, ice, or instruments.

藉星象、地貌、海冰或儀器辨識方向。

Star navigation kept travelers safe long before GPS.

在 GPS 之前，星象導航就守護著旅人。

noun · běi jí xīng

The north star, which stays almost still in our sky.

北極星，在天空中幾乎不動。

Find Polaris and you have found north.

找到北極星就找到了北方。

noun phrase · yīn yáng hé lì

A calendar that follows both the moon and the sun.

同時依據月亮與太陽運行的曆法。

農曆 is a lunisolar calendar with leap months.

農曆是含閏月的陰陽合曆。

noun · shǔ mù guāng

The soft light before sunrise and after sunset.

日出前與日落後的柔和光線。

Arctic winter has hours of blue twilight.

北極冬天有好幾小時的藍色曙暮光。

noun phrase · tài yáng fēng

A stream of charged particles flowing from the sun.

從太陽流出的帶電粒子流。

Solar wind feeds the aurora.

太陽風孕育了極光。

noun (Chinese) · niú láng zhī nǚ

The Cowherd and Weaver Girl, separated by the Milky Way.

被銀河隔開的牛郎與織女。

七夕 tells the story of 牛郎織女 meeting once a year.

七夕講述牛郎織女一年一會的故事。

noun (Iñupiaq) · bào chūn shuāng xīng

The stars whose return announces the sun is coming back.

其重現宣告太陽即將回歸的星。

When Aagruuk rises, the long dark is ending.

當 Aagruuk 升起，漫長的黑夜就要結束。

noun (Chinese) · tiān wén

Sky patterns — the writing of the heavens.

天空的紋理，即天的文字。

觀天文 means reading the sky as a text.

觀天文就是把天空當作文本來閱讀。

noun · guāng nián

The distance light travels in one year — a measure of space, not time.

光在一年中走過的距離，量的是空間而非時間。

The Dipper's stars are many light-years apart from each other.

北斗七星彼此相距許多光年。

noun · xīng yún

A cloud of gas and dust where stars are born.

恆星誕生的氣體與塵埃雲。

A nebula is a nursery, seen from very far away.

星雲是一座育嬰房，只是離得非常遠。

noun · huì xīng

An icy body that grows a tail as it nears the sun.

接近太陽時長出尾巴的冰質天體。

Chinese records tracked comets for two thousand years.

中國的星象記錄追蹤彗星長達兩千年。

noun · xiǎo xíng xīng

A rocky body orbiting the sun, smaller than a planet.

繞太陽運行、比行星小的岩質天體。

Most meteors begin as fragments of asteroids.

大多數流星原本是小行星的碎片。

noun · xīng děng

How bright a star looks — smaller numbers mean brighter stars.

星體看起來的亮度，數字越小越亮。

Record the magnitude you can see; it measures your sky, too.

記下你能看到的星等，那也在量你的天空。

noun · huáng dào

The path the sun appears to trace through the stars.

太陽在星空中看似行經的路徑。

The 24 Solar Terms divide the ecliptic into 24 equal steps.

二十四節氣把黃道分成二十四等分。

noun phrase · héng xīng rì

One rotation measured against the stars — about 4 minutes shorter than a solar day.

以恆星為準的一次自轉，比太陽日短約四分鐘。

The sidereal day is why the stars rise earlier each night.

恆星日就是星星每晚早升的原因。

noun · yīng xiān zuò liú xīng yǔ

The August meteor shower we observe and count together.

我們一同觀測與計數的八月流星雨。

For the Perseids we bring blankets, a clock, and the journal.

看英仙座流星雨要帶毯子、時鐘和筆記本。

noun · cí céng

Earth's magnetic shield, which funnels solar wind toward the poles.

地球的磁場護盾，把太陽風導向兩極。

The magnetosphere is why the aurora belongs to the north.

因為磁層，極光才屬於北方。

noun (Chinese) · tiān hé

The Sky River — the Chinese name for the Milky Way.

銀河的中文古稱。

天河 separates the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

天河把牛郎與織女分隔兩岸。