1.Who came up with leap years and why do we have them?

谁提出了闰年，为什么我们有闰年呢？

2.All right, so 2024 is a leap year.

2024年是闰年。

3.Looking at you here, leap years.

看下历，2020闰年。

4.We have a solar eclipse taken place in April, and it's a leap year.

四月有食，今年又是闰年。

5.And there is some interesting history associated with leap years.

有关闰年还有些有趣的历史。

6.In a leap year, the dates jump over one day of the week.

在闰年，期会跳过周中的。

7.So, leap years might seem silly.

因此，闰年可能看起来很愚蠢。

8.So, that's how leap years work.

所以，这就是闰年的机制啦。

9.After all, we all know the answer is 365-and 366 in leap years-right?

毕竟，我们都知道答案是365，而闰年是366，对吧？

10.February has twenty-eight alone. All the rest have thirty-one. Except in leap year.

二月仅有二八。 除了在闰年， 余下的月份均有三。

11.Pope Gregory also made February 29th, the official date to add during a leap year.

格里高利还把2月29确定为闰年的官方期。

12.And the entire 12 month period with a February 29 in it is called a leap year.

12个月的时间里拥有2月29的那年被称为闰年。

13.It's called a leap year and it's maybe the strangest thing we do on the calendar.

这被称为闰年，这可能是我们在历上所做的最奇怪的事情。

14.We get 366 days on the calendar instead of 365. But why, what is a leap year?

历上总共有366，而不是365。但是，这是为什么呢，闰年到底是什么？

15.To mark the start of the 366-day countdown (2012 is a leap year), special events are planned for today.

今，人们计划举办独具特色的庆祝活动来启动伦敦奥运会366倒计时（2012年是闰年）。

16.Last year was a leap year, skewing the comparison of this year's shorter first quarter with last year's longer one.

去年是闰年，所以今年的第季度相对去年来说要短些。

17.That means that in the 1600s, the 2000s, those have leap years, but not the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s.

这意味着在1600年，2000年，这些年是闰年，但在1700年、1800年和1900年不是。

18.Leap years were believed to be difficult, and leap days unlucky and a bad time to begin anything new.

闰年被认为是很艰难的年， 而闰是不吉利的，不是开始新事物的好时机。

19.You can choose from, why do we have leap years?

你可以选择，为什么我们有闰年？机翻

20.So, folks born on that date in a leap year will get to celebrate their birthdays on their actual birth date.

因此闰年那出生的人们会在这样的实际期庆祝自己的生。