So, they took satellite dishes, added some flashing lights and even climate control to keep the animals warm, and voila, a chicken coop that's said to be out of this world.

于，他们用碟形天线，再加上闪光灯和制暖装置来保持鸡窝温暖，再看，俨然一个外星鸡窝。

The gas and dust back up, forming a disc.

气体和尘埃退了回去，形成了一个碟形。

Terry Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series.

特里·普拉切特最出名的作品他的《碟形世界》系列。

The QTT's fully steerable dish, spanning 110 metres, will enable it to observe 75% of the stars in the sky at any given time.

QTT的完全可操纵的碟形天线横跨110米，将使它能够在任何给定时间观测天空中75%的恒星。

Catching them requires either a dish antenna of enormous proportions, or an array of smaller ones, with a supercomputer to consolidate the data.

捕捉这些信号或需要巨大的碟形天线，或天线的组合，由超级计算机来整合这些数据。

It's in a field, and there's this giant six-foot-wide parabolic dish, like a satellite TV dish, pointing toward the sky.

拍摄地点在野外，上面有个 6 英尺宽的巨大碟形抛物面——像卫星电视锅——朝向天空。

He picked up his gun and Natasha threw a tiny disk from a compartment on her belt.

冬日战士举起武器，娜塔莎从腰出一个型的碟形装置向他扔去。

But Starlink also warns that roof mounted dishes can be blown loose in a storm.

但 Starlink 还警告说，安装在屋顶的碟形天线可能会在暴风雨中被吹散。

The dial mechanism came out next, leaving an empty dished compartment in the instrument.

接下来刻度盘机构，在仪器中留下一个空的碟形隔间。

Okay, so that's Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

好的，以上就特里·普拉切特的《碟形世界》系列。

Around 6: 10 PM, just after finishing up work in the New Mexico National Forest job that he had, Walton was riding in a truck with six of his co-workers when they saw a large saucer-shaped aircraft hovering in the trees.

下午 6 点 10 分左右，沃尔顿刚结束他在新墨西哥国家森林公园的工作，正和他的六名同事坐在一辆卡车上， 这时他们看到一架巨大的碟形飞机在树上盘旋。

When I get back to Heathrow, I'll always go straight to W.H. Smith, which is a kind of newspaper store and get a packet of salt and vinegar Discos and salt and vinegar Squares, and then I feel like I'm at home.

当我回到希思罗机场， 我总会直接去W.H.史密斯，那一家类似报摊的商店， 买一包盐醋味碟形薯片和盐醋味方形薯片，然后我就感觉自己到家了。

Allied scientists came across the plans for the  Sun Gun after the war was over, along with other mad-scientist level stuff like saucer-shaped  aircraft that took off and landed vertically and giant tanks that were like battleships on land.

盟军科学家在战争结束后发现了太阳枪的计划，以及其他疯狂的科学家级别的东西，比如垂直起降的碟形飞机和像陆地上的战舰一样的巨型坦克。

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different.

在思维与现实的交界处， 存在着一个名为“碟形世界”的平行时空， 它听上去、闻起来可能与我们所在的世界极其相似，但外观却截然不同。

Construction on the whole facility will run until 2028, but the first operations can begin as soon as enough dishes and antennas are installed to start receiving signals.

整个设施的建设将持续到 2028 年，但一旦安装了足够的碟形天线和天线以开始接收信号，就可以开始第一批操作。

When I had cable, I had to pay a deposit for the cable box, but with satellite, I had to buy the dish outright, but it wasn't too expensive.

当我有有线电视时， 我必须为有线电视盒支付押金，但如果有卫星， 我必须直接购买碟形天线，但也不算太贵。

British author Terry Pratchett, best known for his fantasy novels such as the Discworld series, became an advocate for assisted dying after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

英国作家特里·普拉切特以其奇幻说如《碟形世界》系列闻名，在确诊阿尔茨海默病后， 他成为了协助死亡的倡导。

It was in the spring and I took a run up to the dish and then I took a red eye to Houston for a meeting

那在春天，我先飞到碟形天线所在地，然后坐红眼航班去了休斯顿参加一个会议。

Or you could  even be drifting onto visions of enormous dishes, like the infamous Arecibo telescope, that once  captured radio waves from across the cosmos.

或， 你可能会联想到那些巨大的碟形天线，比如曾臭名昭着的阿雷西博望远镜，它曾捕捉到来自宇宙深处的无线电波。

All three towers suffered failures, major portions of the dish were destroyed, and the platform and instruments it supported were a complete loss.

所有三座塔都遭遇故障， 碟形天线的主要部分被毁，其支撑的平台和仪器也完全损失。