Earth's orbit around the sun and tilt on its axis combine to carry us in this hemisphere further away from receiving the sun's rays most directly.

随着地球围绕太阳的轨道和轴的倾斜将我们带到这个半球，我们更远离直接接收太阳光线的地方。

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The mirrors could orbit—thousands of miles high—at the same speed as the earth turns on its axis.

这些镜子可以在几千英里的高空以地球绕地轴旋转的速度运行。

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The earth revolves on its axis.

地球环绕自身的轴心转动。

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So what I'd like to do now is focus on a piece that emphasizes--foregrounds-- just the first axis, pitch.

那么现在我要做的是集中精力于一首乐曲,它所强调的,突出的,只是这第一维,音高

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On one axis you have dietary fat, the other you have how much-- in fact I should have brought the graph but I didn't-- how much breast cancer there is in the society.

其中一个轴是膳食脂肪摄入量,另一个轴是,事实上我应该把图表带来的但没有,社会上的乳腺癌病例数量

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So here we have energy increasing on the y-axis, and you see this straight line at the bottom here is lower down on the graph, and that's the energy of a bound electron, so that's going to be a low stable energy.

这里我们看到能量沿着y轴增加，而且在这张图片上,这条直线在底部是降低的，那是一个束缚电子的能量，所以那是一个低稳态能量。

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Risk is commonly placed on the x-axis, and return is placed on the y-axis.

FORBES: The Efficient Frontier

On the x-axis is the rate of unemployment, on the y the rate of inflation.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The above chart looks at how many papers were published in the information technology area (on the X-axis) and how likely those papers were to be cited by other scientific papers.

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