For two months, it skirts the horizon without setting.

太阳有两个月不会落下，就环绕在上方。

But in March 2012, the sun belched a big batch of plasma.

但2012年3月，太阳喷出大量等离子。

The sun rises above the horizon in Svalbard for the first time in months.

在斯瓦尔巴德群岛上，几个月以来太阳初次升起。

Officials expect to complete the solar plant project in May.

官员们预计将在 5 月完成太阳能发电厂目。

The nights draw in. In the far north, the sun will not climb over the horizon for around three months.

夜幕降临。在遥远北方，太阳有大约三个月时间不会爬到之上。

The sun is now high enough in the sky to raise the temperature above zero for the first time in months and the ice turns to water.

现在，天空中太阳高度几个月以来首次足以使气温升至零度以上，冰融化为水。

It’s so insanely far north that the sun does not rise for four months in the winter and it stays up for four months in the summer.

它是如此遥远北方以至于太阳在冬天四个月不升起，而在夏天则持续四个月。

When the ancients first thought up this idea, the Sun was in Aries on March 22, the vernal equinox (what some people call the first day of spring).

当古人第一次产生划分星座想法时，太阳在3月22日进入白羊座，也就是春分日（有些人称之为春季第一天）。

Conversely, when the Sun and Moon are at right angles relative to the Earth (during the first and third quarter moons), their gravitational forces are partially cancelled out.

相反，当太阳和月亮相对于球成直角时（在上弦月和下弦月），它们引力会部分抵消。

Almost all civilizations have based their calendars on either the lunar month or the solar year, despite the inherent difficulty that the year is not made up of an exact number of lunar months.

几乎所有文明都以阴历月或太阳年作为日历基础，尽管存在固有困难， 即年份不是由准确阴历月数组成。

When the Earth is closing in on the Sun during December the Northern Hemisphere is turned away from the Sun giving us a cooler climate even though the Earth is now at its closest to the sun.

当球在12月靠近太阳时，北半球正转离开太阳造成寒冷气候，即使现在球是最靠近太阳时刻。