Bilingual Vocabulary Flashcards

phrase (Chinese) · zài tiān chéng xiàng, zài dì chéng xíng

In the heavens patterns are formed; on earth shapes take form — everything is written twice.

天上顯出星象，地上便成其形——萬物寫了兩遍。

The whole unit grows from one line of the 易經: 在天成象，在地成形.

整個單元都從《易經》這一句長出來：在天成象，在地成形。

noun (Iñupiaq) · tiān dì zhī qì

The living breath of the universe — weather, air, spirit, and the connection between all things.

宇宙的活氣息——天氣、空氣、靈性，也是萬物之間的連結。

Sila is why the sky and the land are never two separate subjects.

因為有 Sila，天與地從來不是兩個分開的科目。

noun (Iñupiaq) · tiān qióng

The sky; the dome above; the home of souls and a source of guidance.

天空、天穹，也是靈魂的居所與指引的來源。

Qilak is read as a map, not only as a ceiling.

Qilak 是一張地圖，而不只是頭頂的天花板。

noun (Iñupiaq) · dà dì

The land — the ground that answers what the sky writes.

土地——回應天空所書寫的那一面。

What Qilak writes above, Nuna answers below.

Qilak 在上書寫，Nuna 在下回答。

noun (Iñupiaq) · hǎi yǔ bīng

The sea and its ice, read together with sky and weather as one system.

海洋與海冰，與天空、天氣一起被當作同一個系統來閱讀。

Hunters read Imak and Qilak in the same glance.

獵人一眼之間同時讀 Imak 與 Qilak。

phrase (Chinese) · tiān rén hé yī

The unity of heaven and humanity — human life patterned on cosmic pattern.

天與人本為一體——人的生活依循宇宙的節律。

天人合一 is the Second Eye's name for what Sila names in Iñupiaq.

第二隻眼稱之為天人合一，第一隻眼稱之為 Sila。

noun (Chinese) · tiān xiàng

Celestial phenomena — the patterns the sky shows.

天空所顯現的種種現象與圖案。

Every 天象 in the table has a matching 地形 beside it.

表格中每一個天象，旁邊都有相對應的地形。

noun (Chinese) · dì xíng

Land form — the shape the earth takes in answer to the sky.

大地的形貌——回應天象而成的形。

The Milky Way 天河 above, the Yellow River 黄河 below: one 地形 written from one 天象.

上有天河，下有黃河：同一個天象寫出的地形。

noun (Chinese) · èr shí bā xiù

The 28 lunar mansions — divisions of the sky used to keep time and order the year.

把天空分成二十八區的星宿系統，用來計時與定年。

The 二十八宿 above pair with the 十二地支 below.

上有二十八宿，下配十二地支。

noun (Chinese) · wǔ xíng

The five elements — the terrestrial answer to the five visible planets 五星.

五種元素，是天上五星在地上的對應。

五星 in the sky, 五行 in medicine, cooking, and character.

天上五星，地上五行——落在醫藥、飲食與品性之中。

noun (Chinese) · èr shí sì jié qì

The 24 Solar Terms — the principle of correspondence turned into a working calendar.

二十四節氣——把天人相應的道理化為可用的農時曆法。

The sun's path decides the solar terms, and the solar terms decide the planting.

日行定節氣，節氣定農事。

noun (Iñupiaq) · běi jí guāng

The northern lights — spirits dancing, and charged particles meeting the atmosphere.

北極光——是起舞的靈，也是帶電粒子撞入大氣。

On Thursday of Week 1 we go outside and watch Kiuguyat ourselves.

第一週的星期四，我們親自到戶外觀看 Kiuguyat。

noun · xiāng yìng

A matching pair — when a pattern in one place answers a pattern in another.

彼此對應：一處的圖案回答另一處的圖案。

Star positions and animal migrations are a correspondence, not a coincidence.

星象與獸群遷徙是相應，不是巧合。

noun · qiān xǐ

The seasonal travel of animals, timed by light, weather, and ice.

動物依光線、天氣與海冰而行的季節性遷移。

Caribou migration is a sky pattern written onto the tundra.

馴鹿的遷徙，是天象寫在苔原上的字。

noun · biàn xiàng xún lù

Finding your way by reading stars, land, ice, and weather together.

同時閱讀星辰、地形、海冰與天氣來找路。

Constellations above match landmarks below — that is wayfinding.

天上的星座對應地上的地標，這就是辨向尋路。

noun phrase · dì zhóu qīng jiǎo

Earth's 23.5° lean, the physical reason we have seasons.

地軸傾斜約 23.5 度，這是四季存在的物理原因。

Axial tilt is the Third Eye's answer to why the solar terms work.

第三隻眼用地軸傾角解釋節氣為何管用。

noun · cháo xī

The sea rising and falling as the moon pulls on it.

海水因月球引力而升降。

The moon's phase above, the tide line below — gravity writes both.

上有月相，下有潮線——引力寫下兩者。

noun · hé hé chéng

The making of elements inside stars — the reason rock, water, and body share star material.

元素在恆星內部生成——岩石、水與身體因此與星辰同源。

Nucleosynthesis means the iron in our blood was written in the sky first.

核合成意味著我們血中的鐵，最先寫在天上。

noun · wù hòu xué

The study of the timing of natural events — bud, leaf, freeze, thaw — as data.

研究自然事件時間點的學問：發芽、展葉、結冰、解凍。

Week 2 is phenology: we record what the plants do and when.

第二週做的就是物候學：記錄植物在何時做了什麼。

verb / noun (Chinese) · hòu

To wait and watch — noticing subtle change rather than forcing it.

等待與觀察——察覺細微的變化，而不是強求。

Every observation walk begins with ten minutes of 候 and no talking.

每次觀察散步，都以十分鐘不說話的「候」開始。

noun (Iñupiaq) · wú shēng

Without voice — the knowing that arrives only in silence.

沒有聲音——只在沉默中到來的理解。

Nipaitsoq is why we listen before we write anything down.

因為 Nipaitsoq，我們先聆聽，再落筆。

noun · zhì rì

The turning day when the sun reaches its highest or lowest path of the year.

太陽走到一年中最高或最低軌跡的那一天。

In Alaska the winter solstice is a whole mood, not just a date.

在阿拉斯加，冬至是一整種氣氛，而不只是一個日期。

adjective · gǒng jí de

Describing stars that circle the pole and never set — like the Dipper here.

繞著天極旋轉、永不落下的星——例如這裡的北斗。

北斗七星 is circumpolar in Alaska, so it is always available as a clock.

在阿拉斯加，北斗七星是拱極星，因此隨時可當時鐘。

noun · yǔ zhòu guān

A culture's whole account of what the universe is and how we belong to it.

一個文化對宇宙是什麼、人如何身在其中的整體理解。

Three cosmologies, one sky — none of them beneath another.

三種宇宙觀，同一片天空——沒有哪一個低於另一個。

noun (Chinese) · jié qì

The 24 Solar Terms — the sun's yearly path cut into 24 named seasons of work and weather.

二十四節氣——把太陽一年的行程分成二十四個有名字的時節。

Unit 2 asks how 節氣 carries the sky down into the fields.

第二單元問：節氣如何把天上的規律帶進田裡。

noun phrase · jì jié xún huán

The Iñupiaq year of ice, fish, caribou, and berries — a calendar made of subsistence, not numbers.

伊努皮雅特的一年：冰、魚、馴鹿、莓果——用生計而非數字寫成的曆法。

The seasonal round is a calendar you can eat from.

季節循環是一部可以吃的曆法。

noun (Chinese) · běi dǒu qī xīng

The Northern Dipper — seven stars whose turning handle names the season.

北斗七星——七顆星，斗柄所指便是季節。

斗柄东指，天下皆春 — when the handle points east, all under heaven is spring.

斗柄東指，天下皆春。

noun (Iñupiaq) · bēn pǎo zhě

The Runners — the three stars of Orion's Belt, read for seasonal timing and direction.

奔跑者——獵戶座腰帶三星，用來判斷季節與方向。

Ullaktut rises, and the hunters know how far the year has turned.

奔跑者升起，獵人便知道一年走到了哪裡。

noun phrase · tiān wén dǎo háng

Finding your way by the sun, moon, and stars instead of by a machine.

以日月星辰而非儀器來辨方向、找路。

Week 15 practises celestial navigation with three traditions' methods side by side.

第十五週把三種傳統的天文導航方法並列練習。

proper noun (Chinese) · niú láng zhī nǚ

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl — two stars, one river of sky, one story of separation and reunion.

牛郎織女——兩顆星、一條天河，一個離別與重逢的故事。

牛郎织女 shows a sky pattern becoming a human story.

牛郎織女讓天上的星象變成了人間的故事。

noun (Chinese) · liú xīng

A shooting star — in Chinese tradition, a messenger from heaven; in science, a burning grain of dust.

流星——在中國傳統裡是天的信使，在科學裡是燃燒的塵粒。

Both readings of 流星 are true at once; that is the point of the third eye.

流星的兩種解讀同時成立——這正是第三隻眼的用意。

phrase (Chinese) · tiān rén gǎn yìng

Heaven and humanity respond to each other — what happens above answers what happens below.

天人感應——天上與人間彼此回應。

Comets and eclipses were read through 天人感应 as commentary on human affairs.

彗星與日食曾以天人感應之說，被讀作對人事的評論。

noun · rì shí · yuè shí

When one body's shadow falls across another — sun, moon, and earth briefly in a line.

一個天體的影子落在另一個上——日、月、地短暫成一直線。

Week 22 reads the same eclipse through Chinese, Iñupiaq, and scientific eyes.

第二十二週用中國、伊努皮雅特與科學三種眼睛看同一次日食。

noun phrase · tài yáng fēng

Charged particles streaming from the sun — what lights Kiuguyat when they strike our air.

自太陽奔流而出的帶電粒子——撞上大氣時，點亮了極光。

Sila and the solar wind name the same aurora from two directions.

Sila 與太陽風，從兩個方向指向同一道極光。

noun · hù huì

Giving back to what gives to you — the practical shape of living inside Sila.

回報那些供養你的——這是活在 Sila 之中的實際做法。

Unit 5 turns cosmology into reciprocity: how do we answer the land?

第五單元把宇宙觀化為互惠：我們如何回應這片土地？

noun (Iñupiaq) · yuán mǎn · ān hǎo

Wholeness and well-being — being in right relation with people, land, and sky.

圓滿與安好——與人、土地、天空都處在正確的關係之中。

The year ends where it began: Iluaq, learning without losing.

這一年在起點結束：Iluaq，學而不失其本。

noun phrase · xiū fù xìng xù shì

Telling a story in a way that repairs relationship — naming who speaks, and for whom.

修復性敘事——以修復關係的方式說故事，並說明誰在說、為誰而說。

The final project is restorative storytelling: three cosmologies, one honest voice.

期末作品是修復性敘事：三種宇宙觀，一個誠實的聲音。