The sea is calm, as if a mirror, reflecting the blue sky white jade, green trees and red flowers, like a jasper.

海是静的，仿佛明镜一般，倒映着蓝天白玉，绿树红花，犹如一块碧玉。

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And when its aluminium coating is replaced with silver in a year or two's time (a huge vacuum-chamber housed at the telescope's base will be used to deposit metallic vapour on to the mirror's reflecting surface), it will be able to see into the infra-red with equal clarity, opening up a much neglected area of astronomy.

ECONOMIST: Japan��s new telescope