Terry Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series.

特里·普拉切特最出名作品是他《世界》系列。

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 英尺宽巨大抛物面——像卫星电视锅——朝向天空。

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.

接下来是刻度盘机构，在仪器中留下一个空隔间。

The telescope's dish was constructed inside an enormous circular sinkhole.

望远镜天线建在一个巨大圆天坑内。

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

捕捉这些信号或者需要巨大天线，或者是天线组合，由超级计算机来整合这些数据。

It was held in the center of the saucer-shaped country, and the day was given over to feasting and merry-making.

它是在国家中心举行，这一天被花在了宴会和欢乐中。

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完全可操纵天线横跨110米，将使它能够在任何给定时间观测天空中75%恒星。

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， 天线主要部分被毁，其支撑平台和仪器也完全损失。

Focusing those waves to a narrow area above the dish doesn't do much good unless you have a receiver up there to collect and measure them.

将这些波聚焦到天线上方区域并没有多大作用，除非你在那里有一个接收器来收集和测量它们。

The Arecibo telescope was designed with a triangular platform suspended by steel cables above the dish to support the various instruments used to gather radio signals.

阿雷西博望远镜设计有一个由钢缆悬挂在天线上方三角平台，以支撑用于收集无线电信号各种仪器。

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.

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

The Bell Labs dish in New Jersey had to be incredibly sensitive to pick up the weak signals, which also meant it picked up a lot of natural interference.

新泽西州贝尔实验室天线必须非常灵敏才能接收到微弱信号，这也意味着它接收到了很多自然干扰。

Note that these  motors don't continuously move Dishy to point directly at the Starlink satellite; they're used  only for initial setup to get the dish pointed in the proper general direction.

请注意， 这些电机不会持续移动天线以直接指向 Starlink 卫星；它们仅用于初始设置， 以使天线指向正确大致方向。

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计划，以及其他疯狂科学家级别东西，比如垂直起降飞机和像陆地上战舰一样巨型坦克。

The landscape was gently concave; with the exception of tower and hill there were no points on which late rays might linger; and hence the dish- shaped ninety acres of tilled land assumed a uniform hue of shade quite suddenly.

风景微微凹陷。除了塔和山之外，没有任何地方可以留下晚霞。因此，九十英亩耕地突然呈现出统一阴影色调。

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工作，正和他六名同事坐在一辆卡车上， 这时他们看到一架巨大飞机在树上盘旋。