Scientists discovered water on Venus.
科学家们在金星上发现了水。
But I have refused to give up on Venus.
但我拒绝放弃金星。
This "transit" of Venus was the first since 6 December 1882.
这是自1882年12月6日以来的第一次金星“转移”。
If the solar system has an underachiever, it has to be Venus.
如果太阳系有一个后进生，那一定是金星。
The next day, Venus—planetary ruler of Libra—turns retrograde.
第二天，天秤座的行星统治者金星开始逆行了。
So while on Earth we have several types of volcanoes, on Venus there's mostly the one type.
所以地球上的火山有好几种类型，而在金星上的火山只有一种。
In June, Venus, your guardian planet, will be in Taurus, making you completely irresistible.
在六月，你的守护星金星将在金牛座，这让你完全不被压制。
When I refer to the Morning Star, I'm talking about Venus, whether or not I realize it's Venus.
当我提到晨星时，我指的是金星，不管我是否意识到它是金星。
But astronomers laboured hard to analyse the results of these expeditions to observe Venus transits.
但是天文学家辛苦分析这些观测金星凌日的探险活动的结果。
While Venus and Mercury have no moons, Mars has two, while Saturn and Jupiter have more than 60 each.
尽管金星和水星没有卫星，火星却有两个卫星，更别提各有超过60个卫星的土星和木星。
The second problem is that Venus exhibits a halo of light when it is seen just outside the Sun's disc.
第二个问题是，当金星在太阳圆盘外被观测到时，它会呈现出光晕。
Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like earth.
长期以来，金星一直被认为是一个警示故事，告诉我们在像地球这样的行星上，任何事情都可能出错。
For centuries, transits of Venus have drawn explorers and astronomers alike to the four corners of the globe.
几个世纪以来，金星凌日吸引了探险家和天文学家们汇聚到地球的四个角落。
June 2004's transit of Venus was thus more of an astronomical spectacle than a scientifically important event.
因此，2004年6月的金星凌日与其说是一个重要的科学事件，不如说是一个天文奇观。
June 2004 saw the first passage, known as a "transit", of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun in 122 years.
2004年6月，金星的投影穿越太阳表面，这是122年一遇的天象，被称为“凌日”。
When I talk about the Evening Star, I'm referring to Venus, whether or not I realize that Venus is the Evening Star.
当我谈到昏星时，我指的是金星，不管我是否意识到金星就是昏星。
"No one expected Venus to be the poisonous hell that it is, or Mars to have the river valleys that it does," he said.
“没有人能够预料到，金星是那样一个充满毒气的地狱，而火星表面却有河谷。”他说。
Although this is intriguing evidence, no one's actually observed a Venus volcano erupting yet, so we can't be positive.
尽管这是一个有趣的证据，但是还没有人观察到金星的火山喷发，所以我们不能肯定。
When Venus begins to cross the Sun's disc, it looks smeared not circular—which makes it difficult to establish timings.
当金星开始穿过太阳的圆盘时，它看起来有斑点，不是圆形的——这使得确定时间变得困难。
Venus flytraps appear to have evolved an even more elaborate version of this kind of trap, complete with jaw-like leaves.
维纳斯捕蝇草似乎已经进化出了这种捕蝇草的更复杂的版本，包括颚状的叶子。
Good evening, in 1959, on the day that I was born, a headline in Life magazine proclaimed target Venus, there may be life there.
1959年，我出生的那天傍晚，《生活》杂志的一个标题宣布，金星成为了目标，那里可能有生命。
The planets, in order of their distance from the Sun, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
按照它们与太阳的距离排列，这些行星分别是水星、金星、地球、火星、木星、土星、天王星、海王星和冥王星。
Many people have been fascinated about Venus for centuries because of its thick cloud cover—a so-called planet of mystery and all of that.
数世纪以来，许多人都对金星着迷，因为它有厚厚的云层覆盖——一颗所谓的神秘星球。
The orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn fit neatly into this pattern; Uranus, discovered in 1781, also obeyed the law.
水星、金星、地球、火星、木星和土星的轨道恰好符合这种模式；1781年发现的天王星也同样符合该定律。
Venus flytraps, for example, share an ancestor with Portuguese sundews, which only catch prey passively, via "flypaper" glands on their stems.
例如，维纳斯捕蝇草和葡萄牙茅膏菜有共同的祖先，后者只通过茎上的“捕蝇纸”腺体被动地捕捉猎物。
Mars, in contrast, has a wildly oscillating tilt and chaotic seasonality, while Venus, rotating slowly backward, has virtually no seasonality at all.
相比之下，火星有着剧烈的倾斜和混乱的季节性，而金星则缓慢地向后旋转，几乎没有实质上的任何季节性。
But there was a problem: transits of Venus, unlike those of Mercury, are rare, occurring in pairs roughly eight years apart every hundred or so years.
但有一个问题：和水星凌日不同的是，金星凌日是罕见的，大约每隔一百年会成对出现八年的时间。
The planet Venus takes 243 earth-days to turn once on its axis, so incoming heat from the sun is added and distributed at a more leisurely, observable pace.
金星自转一周需要243个地球日，因此来自太阳的热量以更悠闲、更容易观察到的速度被吸收和分配。
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