向正东走，你得考虑到地球的形状然后稍偏北行进。
That's because the Earth is curved. To travel directly east, you'd have to take into account the shape of the Earth and Angle yourself slightly north.
这个投影基于地球的形状是球体模型的前提提供了以米测量的地球数据。
This projection provides data measured in meters across the globe, basing the shape of the earth on a sphere model.
每一个人都以为自己站在这世界的顶上，这是由地球的形状造成的可亲的错觉。
It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.
桥的跨度有4,260英尺。桥梁很长，所以它的设计师不得不考虑地球的形状。
It has a span of4260 feet. The bridge is so long that the shape of the earth had to be taken into account by its designer.
桥的跨度有4,260英尺。桥梁很长，所以它的设计师不得不考虑地球的形状。
It has a span of 4260 feet. The bridge is so long that the shape of the earth had to be taken into account by its designer.
在大地测量中，地球的形状被看成一个椭球体，虽然在技术角度来看，它不是真正的椭球。
In Geodetic Surveys, the shape of the earth is thought of as a spheroid, although in a technical sense, it is not really a spheroid.
本书的大部分篇章介绍了碳中和建造的基本法则和原理。这些章节用地球的形状标注在页面的顶部。
The main text of the book presents the underlying principle and philosophy of carbon neutral construction. These pages are marked with a globe at the top of the page.
过了一会，如果有人要在地图上指出你的位置，那么实际上你既在初始点东边也在其极南的位置上。向正东走，你得考虑到地球的形状然后稍偏北行进。
After a while, if someone were to pinpoint your position on a map, you'd actually be both east and far south of your original position.
星际物质很像地球上的云，形状大小各异。
The interstellar material, rather like terrestrial clouds, comes in all shapes and sizes.
你可能知道，地球围绕太阳的轨道形状不像一个完美的圆。
You are probably aware that the earth's orbit around the sun is not shaped like a perfect circle.
太阳一年内的轨迹形成这种形状是因为地球围绕着与太阳略微不同的轴旋转，而我们的地球也沿着椭圆形轨道运行。
The sun makes this shape over a year because Earth rotates on a slightly different axis than the sun, and our planet also travels on an elliptical orbit.
地理和投影坐标系都包含对地球形状的假设(一个略扁的球体)；这称为大地基准点。
Both geographic and projected coordinate systems include a definition of the assumed shape of the earth (a flattened sphere); this is called the geodetic datum.
这些沙丘在形状、大小和成因(风吹所致)上，和地球上的Namib沙漠上的沙丘相似。
These dunes are similar in form, size and cause (the blowing of the wind) to those found in the Namib desert on Earth.
“尽管平坦地球论还没有公认的模型，”珊顿说，”但为多数人接受的观点认为，地球形状是个圆盘，并且在水中托着一圈某种东西。
"There is no unified flat Earth model, " Shenton suggests, "but the most commonly accepted one is that it's more or less a disc, with a ring of something to hold in the water.
上图：我很喜欢收集古董地球仪，各种各样的形状和颜色的我都有。
Image above: Really love collecting vintage globes and I have so many of different shapes and colors.
由于地球的球面形状，在至日突出的表面阻挡了阳光照射照远端的半球；同样是球面的原因，在至日阳光可以照射两极的更多地方。
The bulge of our spherical Earth blocks sunlight from the far hemisphere at the solstices; that same curvature allows the sun's rays to spread over more area near the top and bottom of the globe.
美国得克萨斯大学的科学家经研究发现，在过去28年中，地球形状发生明显的变化似乎都与气象事件(如厄尔尼诺现象等)有关系。
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found that significant changes in the shape of the Earth in the past 28 years may be linked to climate events such as the El Nino weather pattern.
该证据的一部分来源于灶神星的密度，另一部分来源于数以百计以陨石形状存在的大块岩石，地球科学家们已对这些岩石进行过研究。
Part of that evidence comes from its density and part from hundreds of chunks of rock, in the form of meteorites, that have been examined by Earth-bound scientists.
形状怪异的沙丘是地球和火星上比较常见的新月沙丘。
These strangely shaped dunes are known as barchan dunes and are common on both Earth and Mars.
范艾伦辐射带是由带电粒子组成的两个甜甜圈形状的环状物——其中一个挨靠在另一个内部——环绕着我们地球。
The Van Allen belts are two doughnut-shaped rings of charged particles-one nestled inside the other-that encircle our planet.
此外，他还制造了一个地球形状的汽车房屋，大小正好占地球体积的百万分之一。
Hamad constructed a motor home in the shape of a giant globe which is exactly 1 millionth the size of the actual earth.
图5：这张精美的照片包含了四个形状各异的星系团，但呈蓝色螺旋状的星系团离地球有四千万光年的距离，为斯蒂芬五重星系的其他星系距离的七倍。
5：A four-way galactic pileup appearsimminent, but the bluish spiral, 40 million light-years away, is seven times asclose as the rest of Stephan's Quintet.
这不是由赤道处更深的海洋和更多的水体所引起的，而是地球本身的形状，特别是其岩浆层引起的。
This is not caused by deeper oceans, more water, at the Equator but rather the shape of the Earth itself, the magma layer in particular.
地球的温暖和凉爽，例如洋流的循环，描述了一个莫比乌斯形状。
The circulations of earth's warmer and cooler ocean currents for example, describe a mobius shape.
形成季节的主要因素不是地球公转轨道的形状，而是地球自转轴的倾斜。
The tilt of the earth's axis, not the shape of its orbit, is what is responsible for the seasons.
在天文学轴和形状轴之间的角度差称做“章动”，引起地球轨道螺旋摆动，就是著名的卡南德尔“摆动”。
The angular difference between the astronomical axis and the axis of figure called a "nutation" causes an earth orbit al spirical oscillation known as the famous chandler "wobble".
此外，他还会说，我凭什么理由认为地球一定与太阳和月亮的形状相同？对此，我同样无法解答。
Besides, he goes on, what reason have I for thinking that the earth must be the same shape as the sun and moon? I can't answer that one either.
此外，他还会说，我凭什么理由认为地球一定与太阳和月亮的形状相同？对此，我同样无法解答。
Besides, he goes on, what reason have I for thinking that the earth must be the same shape as the sun and moon? I can't answer that one either.
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