Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith.

他们背后，西方深红与橘红已然淡去，漠漠乌云爬上了天顶。

There, the astronomer Jean Picard devised an impressively complicated method of triangulation involving quadrants, pendulum clocks, zenith sectors, and telescopes for observing the motions of the moons of Jupiter.

在那里，天文学家让·皮卡尔发明了种极其复杂三角测绘法，用上了扇形板、摆钟、天顶象限仪和天文望远镜用来观察土星卫星运动。

We are not going to be painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.

我们不是要去画西斯廷礼拜堂天顶画。

You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

你还为是天顶华盖塌了下来。

The depressing stars had travelled quite some way across the heavens.

令人沮丧星星已经在天顶运行了截路。

Japan's current system is called the quasi-zenith satellite system, or QZSS.

日本目前系统被称为准天顶卫星系统，简称QZSS。

An amplitude of darkness reigning from their feet almost to the zenith, where a definite form first became visible in the lowering forehead of Rainbarrow.

在他们脚下便是片无际黑幕，直抵天际，在天顶高处，雨冢低首形状才开始看得清楚。

Which was by launching the Zenit 2 rocket for a price of three thousand two hundred seventy-five dollars per kilogram of cargo into Leo.

那是通过发射天顶 2 号火，公斤货物 3275 美元价格进入狮子座。

She looked at the sky overhead, and saw that the sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring and early summer had been replaced by a metallic violet.

她抬头眺望天空，只见春天和初夏季节天顶蓝宝石颜色，已经被金属紫颜色替代。

Up in the zenith where he was seemed a free and happy place, away from all contact with the earthly ball to which she was pinioned.

它飞行天顶，似乎是个自由快乐之地，和束缚她这个尘世没有丝毫瓜葛。

There is the horizon, there's the zenith at the top.

地平线在那边，头顶正上方是天顶。

And it is this like, almost like a it's like a Renaissance ceiling.

这就像个文艺复兴时期天顶画。

That was Sam's only achievement during his stay in Zenith. But weeks went by before he admitted, rather angrily, that business did not need him . . . just as Brent did not need him, Emily did not need him.

那是山姆在天顶逗留期间唯成就。但是几个星期过去了，他相当生气地承认，公司不需要他。 . .就像布伦特不需要他样，艾米丽也不需要他。

In its youth A. concolor is a charmingly symmetrical tree with its flat plumy branches arranged in regular whorls around the whitish-gray axis which terminates in a stout, hopeful shoot, pointing straight to the zenith, like an admonishing finger.

年轻时 A. concolor 是棵迷人对称树，其扁平羽毛状枝条围绕灰白色轴线排列成规则螺旋状，末端是粗壮、充满希望枝条，直指天顶，就像根警示手指。

The US was working on space-based lasers in 1987  with its Project Zenith Star, and although that never made it past ground testing, their military  has continued to toy with the idea in the decades since.

1987 年， 美国通过“天顶之星” 项目研究天基激光器，尽管该项目从未通过地面测试，但自那后几十年里， 他们军方直在尝试这个想法。

A zenith star was a really bright star that would pass directly overhead at a particular latitude… at a particular distance from the equator, often at a latitude associated with some particular Pacific island.

天顶星是颗非常明亮恒星, 它会在特定纬度处直接从头顶经过...... 在距离赤道特定距离处, 通常是在与某个特定太平洋岛屿相关纬度处。

In this manner hours passed without further interruption. The moon reached the zenith, and shed its mild light perpendicularly on the lovely sight of the sisters slumbering peacefully in each other's arms.

就这样，几个小时过去了，没有再中断。月亮升上了天顶，柔和光直射在姐妹俩相拥而眠可爱景象上。

The extreme top of the tree is a thick blunt shoot pointing straight to the zenith like an admonishing finger. The cones stand erect like casks on the upper branches.

树最顶端是根又粗又钝枝条，像根警示手指直指天顶。锥体像木桶样直立在上部树枝上。

Their heads were all reclined, either to the right, or the left; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith.

他们头都倾斜着，要么向右，要么向左；他们只眼睛朝内转，另只则直接向上望向天顶。

And to see it, you gotta look up, Michelangelo finished the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on this dated 1512. He'd painted it alone.

要看到它，你得抬头看，米开朗基罗在1512年这天完成了西斯廷教堂天顶画。他是独自完成。