月全食将让月亮变红
📖 逐句对照翻译
A total lunar eclipse is about to make the moon appear a reddish color across the Western Hemisphere.
一场月全食即将让西半球的月亮呈现出偏红的颜色。
The event will happen Thursday night into Friday morning.
该事件将在周四晚间至周五凌晨发生。
The best places to see the eclipse will be in North America and South America.
观看日食的最佳地点将在北美和南美。
Parts of Africa and Europe may also get brief views.
非洲和欧洲的部分地区也可能短暂看到。
A lunar eclipse happens when the sun, Earth, and moon line up just right, with Earth positioned between the sun and moon.
月食发生在太阳、地球和月球恰好排成一条直线，且地球位于太阳和月球之间时。
This causes the Earth to create a shadow on the moon.
这导致地球在月球上投下阴影。
In a total lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow covers all of the moon.
在月全食期间，地球的影子会遮住整个月球。
Another kind of eclipse is a solar eclipse.
另一种日食是日全食。
In a solar eclipse, the moon gets in a position where it blocks light from the sun, causing a partial or full shadow on Earth.
在日食中，月球处于遮挡太阳光线的位置，在地球上造成部分或完全的阴影。
A total lunar eclipse can also be called a blood moon.
月全食也可以被称为血月。
It makes the moon appear reddish-orange, similar to the element copper.
它使月亮呈现出类似铜元素的红橙色。
The color comes from small amounts of sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere.
这种颜色来自少量阳光穿过地球大气层。
The American space agency NASA says lunar and solar eclipses happen between four and seven times a year.
美国宇航局NASA表示，月食和日食每年会发生四到七次。
The last total lunar eclipse was in 2022.
上一次月全食发生在2022年。
This one will be visible for about one hour starting Friday morning at 2:26 a.m.
这次月食将从周五凌晨2点26分开始，持续约一小时可见。
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
东部夏令时间（EDT）。
The time when the Earth’s shadow covers all of the moon will be close to 3 a.m.
地球的影子完全遮住月球的时刻将接近凌晨3点。
EDT.
美国东部夏令时间。
“As long as the sky is clear, you should be able to see it,” Shannon Schmoll told the Associated Press.
香农·舒莫尔告诉美联社：“只要天空晴朗，你就应该能看到它。”
She is the director of Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University.
她是密歇根州立大学艾布拉姆斯天文馆的馆长。
No special equipment will be needed to see the reddish moon.
观赏这个微红色的月亮不需要任何特殊设备。
The total lunar eclipse may be harder to see in Europe and Africa because the moon will be close to setting.
欧洲和非洲可能更难看到这次月全食，因为月亮即将落下。
Michael Faison is an astronomy expert from Yale University.
迈克尔·费森是耶鲁大学的天文学专家。
He told the AP, “This is really an eclipse for North and South America.”
他告诉美联社：“这对北美和南美来说真的是一次日食。”
Zoe Ortiz is a historian with the University of North Texas.
佐伊·奥尔蒂斯是北德克萨斯大学的历史学家。
She noted that different civilizations have observed lunar eclipses for thousands of years.
她指出，不同文明数千年来都对月食进行了观测。
This helped ancient people learn things about the behaviors of the sun, moon, and stars.
这有助于古人了解太阳、月亮和星星的运行规律。
“They were looking at the night sky and they had a much brighter vision than we do today,” Ortiz said.
奥尔蒂斯说：“他们仰望夜空，看到的景象比我们今天看到的要明亮得多。”
The ancient Greek thinker and writer Aristotle observed that Earths’ shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse was always curved.
古希腊思想家、作家亚里士多德观察到，月食期间地球投射在月球上的影子总是弯曲的。
This fact supported proof that the Earth is round.
这一事实为地球是圆的提供了证据。
The next total lunar eclipse will appear in the sky September 7, across parts of Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe.
下一次月全食将在9月7日出现在天空中，亚洲、非洲、澳大利亚和欧洲的部分地区可见。
Parts of the Americas will get the next chance to see one in March 2026.
美洲部分地区将在2026年3月迎来下一次观测机会。
I’m Caty Weaver.
我是凯蒂·韦弗。
Adithi Ramakrishnan wrote this story for The Associated Press.
阿迪蒂·拉马克里希南为美联社撰写了这篇报道。
Andrew Smith adapted it for VOA Learning English.
安德鲁·史密斯为VOA英语学习频道改编了它。
