But the LUNAR New Year is based on the phases of the moon!

但是农历新年是基于相的！

Well, the Romans also observed the phases of the moon, and they noticed how the phases progressed from a new moon to a full moon.

罗马人也观察相，并相从新满的变化过程。

As Christian Cajochen and his colleagues put it in their paper on the matter in Current Biology, we just thought of it after a drink in a local bar one evening at full Moon.

他的同事和Christian Cajochen将有关睡眠与相研究的论文放了《当代生物学》上，我们就是圆的那晚在附近一个酒吧喝了几杯才想的。

How can the same sum total of solar orbits, lunar phases, terrestrial rotations, or transitions of a cesium-133 atom remain constant, but feel so different in our minds?

太阳轨道、相、地自转或铯 133 原子跃迁的总和怎么会保持不变，但在我们的脑海中却感觉如此不同？

These different shapes of the moon are called its phases: it takes about 29 days for the moon to go through all of its phases and begin them again.

大概需要29天显现所有的相，然后再循环这个过程。

The exact start date of Ramadan changes because it's based on clerics seeing a crescent or new moon as the Islamic calendar follows the lunar cycle.

斋的确切开始日期会变化，因为它是基于伊斯兰历的相或新而定的，伊斯兰历遵循亮的周期。

We call these varying views--phases. When the moon is on the far side of the earth away from the sun, the moon is fully illuminated or full.

我们把这些看不同的样子称为相。当在远离太阳的地的另一边，就会被完全照亮或变成满。

The phase of the Moon we see depends on from what direction the sunlight's hitting it, and the angle we see that from Earth.

我们看的相取决于阳光照射的方向，以及我们从地上看亮的角度。

You don't have to be an astronomer to know that you're looking at the Moon phases or the Sun in eclipse.

即使你不是天文学家，也能认出这图案代表相或日食中的太阳。

And there's a range of new watch faces: Astronomy, Lunar, Playtime, Metropolitan, and of course, we can't forget Buddy!

天文表盘、相表盘、欢乐光表盘、大都会表盘，同样不能忘记Buddy！

That keeps werewolves slaves to the moon and vampires bound by the sun.

让狼人被相所制吸，血鬼不能在阳光下活动。

It gave mean solar time, mean sidereal time, equation of time, and could chart the phases of the moon.

表盘上不仅能显示平太阳，还能显示平恒星、差，记录相。

On these nights, the sleepers complained of poor sleep quality even though they were unaware of the lunar cycle.

圆的晚上，实验者抱怨睡眠质量之差，尽管他们没有识相的变化。

And it turns out, we can add your shuteye to the list.

最近我们发现，睡眠跟相也有关系。

Confusingly, this phase is properly named “first quarter” because the Moon is one quarter of the way through its cycle, one quarter of the way through its orbit around the Earth, even though it looks half full.

容易混淆的是，英文中这个相成为“四分之一”，这个名称是正确的，因为正经过了四分之一的周期，运行了绕地轨道的四分之一，虽然它看起来是半满的。

The moon has something we call 'phases', which means that it appears to change shape a little bit every night.

亮有一种现象，我们称之为“相”，就是说亮每晚都会改变一点形状。

All the other phases are opposite too, so when we see a full Moon, a Moon-dweller would see a new Earth, and so on.

其他相也都相反，当我们在地上看满，在上会看见“满地”，以此类推。

As the phases change, inexorably, day after day, the angle of sunlight hitting the surface changes, bringing new things into our view.

随着相的变化，日复一日，阳光照射地面的角度也在变化，把新的事物带入我们的视野。

Since it's getting wider, this is actually the waxing gibbous phase of the Moon.

由于亮正变得越来越宽，实际上这是“盈凸”相。

The phase of the Moon refers to what shape the Moon appears to us; how much of it we see illuminated from the Earth.

相指在我们看来亮是什么形状，即从地上能看的被照亮的部分有多。