The true shape of Earth is called an oblate spheroid.

地球真正的形状被认为是扁球形。

And remember, Saturn is oblate, so as the rings formed they would've felt a gravitational tug from Saturn's equatorial bulge, centering them right over the planet's midline.

记住，土是扁球形，所以当土环形成的时候，它会受到来自土赤道隆起的引力，使之处于土的中线上。

Vesta is round… ish, what's called an oblate spheroid, flattened a bit like a ball someone's sitting on.

是圆的… … 扁球体，有像被人坐着的球。

The night's first moon, an oblate silver coin, hung well above the southern horizon.

夜晚的第一轮月亮，一枚扁圆的银币，高高地悬在南方的地平线上。

Others will say it's an oblate ellipsoid.

其他人会说它是一个扁椭球体。

He also explained why Earth was oblate, a squashed sphere in shape, and why the equinox moved, and formalized the physics of the speed of sound.

他还解释了地球为何呈扁球形，即形状像一个被压扁的球体， 以及为何春分会移动，并规范化了声速的物理学原理。

And what we see is that it is composed of tiny little oblate structures called melanosomes.

我们看到它是由一种被称为黑色素体的微小扁球形结构组成的。

And the nuns immediately insisted that Malcolm had the wrong idea here, and that Edith was still just an oblate and not a nun.

修女们立刻坚持认为马尔科姆在这里理解错了，伊迪丝仍然只是一个献身者， 而不是修女。