People often start counting "nine cold periods" starting from winter solstice.
人们通常从冬至开始计算“九个寒冷期”。
When winter solstice comes, it brings the shortest days of the year and the longest nights.
当冬至到来的时候，随之而来的是一年中最短的白昼和最长的黑夜。
They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, lesser cold and greater cold.
它们是：立冬、小雪、大雪、冬至、小寒和大寒。
According to scientific results, on Winter solstice, a right angle is formed by the sun and the tropic of carpricorn.
根据科学的结果，在冬至，太阳和南回归线形成了一个直角。
For thousands of years, cultures the world over feted the winter solstice as the moment of the sun's return, the turning of the wintry tide.
在几千年中，世界各地的文化都广泛庆祝冬至日，因为它是太阳回归的日子，是冬季潮汐变更方向的日子。
Then when was the last time that we had a total lunar eclipse occur on the same date as the winter solstice?
那么上一次人类在冬至时节看到月全食是什么时候呢？
Solstice is the name of the new baby giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo. It was born in December, on winter solstice.
索斯提斯（Solstice 中文意思为至日）是圣路易斯动物园（St. Louis Zoo）新生小长颈鹿的名字，它生于12月的冬至那天，因此得名。
Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter solstice in 2012, to coincide with the end of a cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar.
最初，这一理论认为2003年5月降爆发大灾难，结果什么都没发生，他们就把日期推迟到2012年冬至，与古玛雅历法中的循环结束相符。
The sun's highest point in the sky, seen in this analemma, occurs during the summer solstice, while its lowest point is during winter solstice.
夏至期间，你能看到从8字曲线中看到的太阳在空中最高点，在冬至期间能够看到其最低点。
Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the official beginning of winter.
冬至在北半球是一年里最短的一天，同时也标志着冬天正式开始。
At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand dune on the eastern edge of the Namib Desert.
就在冬至前三周，晨曦时分，纳米比亚大沙漠的东边的沙丘上，最后一缕灰色的晨雾衬着粉色的天空蜿蜒屈曲。
The last time a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice, astronomer Galileo Galilei was languishing under house arrest for suggesting the Earth circled the sun.
上次月全食发生在冬至期间的时候，天文学家伽利略正因为自己提出“日心说”理论而被软禁着。
Finally, this raises the question — prior to 2010, when was the last time that we had a total lunar eclipse occur on the same calendar date as the winter solstice?
最后，这又产生了一个问题——2010年以前，最后一次出现和冬至相同的日期发生月全食是什么时候呢？
Once every 25, 800 years, the sun lines up with the centre of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.
每过25 800年，在冬至日，太阳都将与银河系的中心重合，太阳的最低点在地平线上。
Winter solstice is a very important solar term in Chinese Lunar calendar. Being a traditional holiday as well, it is still now celebrated quite often in many regions.
冬至是我国农历中一个非常重要的节气，也是一个传统节日，至今不少地方仍有过冬至节的习俗。
At that time of year the winter solstice was coming, and the Sun was moving into a lower declination in the sky.
这是逐渐临近冬至的一段时间，太阳的赤纬也是不断地缩小。
The rare lunar eclipse has fallen on the winter solstice at the Greenwich meridian of December 21, 2010, making the day the "darkest" ever in 372 years.
2010年12月21日正午时分(格林尼治时间)，月全食和冬至时间偶遇，于是372年来最“黑暗”的日子就此诞生。
The Aymara people, one of the largest indigenous groups in the region, celebrated their new year number 5,518 on the winter solstice, which marked the start of the new agricultural cycle.
艾马拉人是该地区人口最多的一个原住民群体。今年是艾马拉人第5518次在冬至庆祝新年的到来，这标志着他们又开始了新一轮的农耕作业。
Thelast total lunar eclipse visible from the U.S. occurred on Dec. 21, 2010, which coincided with winter solstice and was widely observed.
最近一次在美国可见的月全食发生在2010年12月21日，那天恰巧是冬至，所以月食能够被大多数地区观察到。
The next lunar eclipse with good viewing from the States will occur in 2014, though stargazers eager for the next eclipse during a winter solstice will have to wait until Dec. 21, 2094 .
下一次美国理想观测月食的时间为2014年，但是急于在冬至这一天观测下次月食的天文爱好者，还得等到2094年12月21日。
The McKennas continued, "Because the winter solstice node is precessing, it is moving closer and closer to the point on the ecliptic where it will eclipse the galactic center."
麦凯南夫妇继续讲道，“由于冬至点在不断推移，它将逐渐接近黄道面上的一点，在这一点，银心将黯然失色。”
In east China's Shandong Province, there is a traditional saying like this: "eat dumplings on the Winter Solstice and eat noodles on the Summer Solstice."
在中国东部的山东省，有一个像这样的传统说法：“冬至饺子夏至面”。
The winter solstice, theoretically should be the dead of a year, but it is usually not that.
理论上讲，冬至应是全年最冷的时刻，但通常并不是这样。
Blessed is happy, prayer is holy, blessed is safe, you are thinking I wish the prayer bless this friend, so happy and happy forever with you! Happy winter solstice.
被祝福是快乐的，被祈祷是神圣的，被保佑是安全的，你是被我惦记着祝福了祈祷过保佑下的朋友，所以幸福快乐永伴你！冬至快乐。
Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when the worst of the winter was behind them and they could look forward to longer days and extended hours of sunlight.
当冬天最难熬的时间已经过去，人们可以期待白天变长，日光多延长几个小时的时候，人们在冬至里欢呼庆祝。
Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when the worst of the winter was behind them and they could look forward to longer days and extended hours of sunlight.
当冬天最难熬的时间已经过去，人们可以期待白天变长，日光多延长几个小时的时候，人们在冬至里欢呼庆祝。
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