betelgeuse
betelgeuse
1. “Alright,” said Ford. “How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?”
“好的。”福特说，“那么如果我告诉你我压根不是从吉尔福德来的，而是从一个近参宿四的某个地方的小行星上来的呢？”
2. Proper name A name such as "Betelgeuse", "Polaris", etc, by which the star is traditionally known.
专有名称比如类似“参宿四”，“勾陈一”等等的名称，这样的恒星长久以来一直为人所熟知。
3. Thereafter, staggering semi-paralytic down the night streets he would often ask passing policemen if they knew the way to Betelgeuse.
从酒吧出来后他好像半身不遂一样跌跌撞撞地走着夜路，常常会拦住身边的警察问他去参宿四（猎户座阿尔法星）怎么去。
4. The reason he said green was that green was the traditional space livery of the Betelgeuse trading scouts.
他说绿色的原因只是因为那是参宿四贸易巡查员传统太空制服的颜色。
5. But how do relatively rare titans such as Betelgeuse emerge from the same stuff that usually yields batches of sun-sized orbs and even more common red dwarfs?
但是象参宿四那样相对稀少的巨型恒星是如何出现的呢？同样多的物质材料通常可以产生一批象太阳大小的天体，甚至可以产生更多的普通红矮星。
6. Many of these names date back many centuries and are Arabic in origin (eg, "Betelgeuse" means "the armpit of the giant"!
其中许多的命名时间要追溯到很多世纪以前，那时阿拉伯刚发源（例如，“参宿四”意思是“巨人的腋窝”！）
7. Betelgeuse is the reddish star near the center and the Belt of Orion and the Orion Nebula are farther right.
参宿四是中央附近略带红色的恒星，猎户座腰带和猎户星云位于影像的更右方。
8. They don't have sarcasm on Betelgeuse, and Ford Prefect often failed to notice it unless he was concentrating. He said, “Good, is there anywhere we can talk?”
反讽这个概念在参宿四那里是不存在的，所以福特要是不使劲儿想，总是忘了这个茬儿。他说，“这样啊，咱们得找个地方聊聊。“
9. Given a dark sky, you can see this archway of stars running by Betelgeuse.
在漆黑的夜晚，你还能看到这些恒星穿过参宿四。
10. a constellation on the equator east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel.
在金牛星座天赤道东部的星座；包含参宿四（位于猎户星座的一颗鲜红色固有变星，距地球572光年）和参宿七（猎户座星群中的一颗明亮的双星）。
11. The map will be redrawn centred on the position of Betelgeuse.
地图将以参宿四为中心重绘。
12. They point northward to Polaris, the North Star, and south to Orion's bright ruddy star Betelgeuse.
当宙斯被藏在克里特岛伊达山上时，是阿玛尔泰娅喂养了这个婴孩。
13. Click on the name "Betelgeuse".The list will close, with the name "Betelgeuse" shown selected.Now click the "+" to the right of the combo-box.
点击“参宿四”，列表会自动收起，“参宿四”会显示为被选中。
14. The diameter of the star Betelgeuse is more than a quarter the size of our entire solar system.
猎户座中的一等星的直径比我们整个太阳系直径的四分之一还要大。
15. A constellation in the celestial equator near Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
猎户座在天球赤道上靠近双子座和金牛座的星座，包括参宿四和参宿七
16. Even accounting for the site's unique verbal style (and the challenge of assigning an ethnic context to "legitimate" names like Betelgeuse), the qualifier was striking.
考虑到该网站独特的口语化风格（同时还有该网站大胆地把带有民族文化色彩的名字归结为合理的名字，例如比特裘斯），这句口号是很有震撼力的。
17. Otherwise Orion's hot blue stars are numerous, with supergiant Rigel balancing Betelgeuse at the upper right, Bellatrix at the upper left, and Saiph at the lower right.
而猎户座内炽热的蓝色恒星有很多，超巨星参宿七位于右上角与参宿四相对应，参宿五位于左上方，参宿六位于右下方。
18. Through it, Betelgeuse would appear not as a mere point of light but as a 3,000-pixel image offering a level of detail currently available only for nearby planets.
至于参宿四，看起来不再是一个光点，而是具3000像素的影像，所提供的详细程度是目前在附近行星上才能得到的。
19. Let's find "Betelgeuse" on the map.
让我们试着找一下“参宿四”。
20. Because Betelgeuse is expanding in size while losing mass, its density has become very low: the star is now about a billion times less dense than the air on Earth.
这些反应产生的热量多于燃烧氢气时产生的热量，结果是参宿四不断膨胀，体积要比其年轻时大许多。
21. With binoculars, check out the star cluster M35 between Theta Aurigae and Betelgeuse.
这是发生在奥林匹亚与提坦巨神战争时期，当然，阿玛尔泰娅溢出的乳汁就形成了银河。
22. Rigel was a blue star, smaller than Betelgeuse, Dad said, but even brighter.
那天晚上在圣诞晚餐上，我们都在谈论着宇宙空间。
