So what ends up happening is that I could almost fill in the ellipses.

最后的结果是，我几乎可以把这些省略的部分填满。

For one thing, it's not a perfect circle, it's quite an elongated ellipse.

至少不是一个标准的，而更像是一个拉长的椭。

An ellipse is an asymmetrically shaped closed oval.

任何椭都是对称封闭的椭。

This ellipse has an important property called eccentricity.

椭有一个重要的性质，叫做离心率。

The " n" goes into the " o" , an ellipses it's called.

" n" 进入" o" ，是一个省略。

Eccentricity measures how flattened an ellipse is compared to a circle.

偏心率衡量的是椭与相比的扁平。

As Kepler showed, the earth's orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one of the two focal points.

像开普勒曾指出的，地球的轨道是个椭，相对以太阳为中心绕起来的话有两个焦点。

As the planet orbits the star, it makes a big circle (or ellipse) .

当行星围绕恒星运行时，它会成一个大(或椭)。

Now, Newton predicted that the orbit of Mercury was an oval, or as scientists like to say " an ellipse."

牛顿预测的水星轨道是椭的，或者用家惯用的词，“椭”。

The rough transcript also contains ellipses at three points where Mr. Trump is speaking.

这份粗略的文字记录还略去了三处，特朗普均为说话人的内容。

The further apart the foci are, the more squashed the ellipse is.

焦点距离越远，椭受到的挤压越大。

Remember too that the Moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse.

同样要记住的是，月亮绕地球的公转轨道是个椭。

It has two points, called foci, which act as a combined center for an ellipse.

它有两个点，称为焦点，作为一个椭的联合中心。

Not only that, the Moon orbits the Earth on an ellipse.

不仅如此，月球绕地球公转的轨道是椭的。

Instead, they generally have a stretched version of a circle, which is technically called an ellipse.

相反，它们通常有一个的拉伸公转，也是椭。

Well, an ellipse is a shape that resembles a kind of squashed circle.

椭是一种类似于被压扁的的状。

Well, a is the semi-major axis, or half the distance along the long axis of the ellipse.

a 是半长轴，或者说椭长轴的距离的一半。

Its foci are two points within the ellipse that describe its shape.

它的焦点是椭内描述其状的两个点。

Simply put, eccentricity tells how much the ellipse deviates from a perfect circle.

简单地说，离心率表示椭与正的偏离程。

And b is the semi-minor axis, or half the distance along the short axis of the ellipse.

b 是半短轴，或者说椭短轴的距离的一半。