Solar eclipse 2017: The pictures you have to see

Posted 2021-05-01 BBC周读

Americans gazed upwards in their millions on Monday, as a total solar eclipse swept the country.

因为日全食的到来，尽管是在周一，千万美国人仍然把目光转移到了天上。

It was the first such eclipse to go from the west to east coasts of the US in 99 years.

From schoolchildren in Missouri to mounted patrol officers in Idaho, the nation was transfixed by the sight of the Moon drifting in front of the Sun, and blocking its light.

这是99年以来，最完美的日全食，日全食的过程从美国东海岸到西海岸都可以看到。从Missouri州的小学生到美国西北部的Idaho州的巡逻队长，每一个人都被月球完全遮住太阳的景象惊呆了，遮住了所有的日光如同黑夜。

Far from the crowds on Earth, just six people saw the umbra, or the Moon's shadow, from space.

在远离地球的空间站中，也只有他们6个人看到了伞状的月影。

International Space Station (ISS) astronauts had a clear view as they orbited above the US from an altitude of 250 miles (402km). They crossed the path of the eclipse three times.

因为他们的轨道正好在美国的上空，国际空间站的宇航员有很好的视野看到日全食。他们曾与日食轨迹相交三次。

Meanwhile the BBC's James Cook had a front-row seat as he chased the Moon's shadow at 40,000ft.

同时，BBC的记者詹姆斯库克观看这次日食享受到了VIP的位置，他在4万英尺的高空追逐着日食。

Warnings had been made about eye safety in the build-up to the eclipse, with people told they should not look at the Sun directly with the naked eye, and instead wear special protective eyewear.

在日全食之前，就已经收到了安全提醒，为了眼睛安全，不能够不戴专用的护眼设备就直接观看日全食。

Most people appeared to heed this advice, though what some placed over their eyes may not have done much to protect them.

大多数人都戴上了这些设备，不过有些使用的护眼设备并没有起到很大的保护性作用。

A boy wearing protective eyewear looks at the solar eclipse from a beach in Chilmark, Massachusetts

曼彻斯特的Chilmark,一个小男孩戴着护眼设备正在观看日食。

In Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, where the solar eclipse was partially visible, this man made glasses from a plastic bottle.

在海地的首都，这里只能看到日食的一部分，图中的人只用塑料瓶做了个眼睛观看日食。

The US President, for his part, did not set the best example. (Though he and the First Lady were also pictured wearing protective eyewear.)

美国总统，就他而言，没做好榜样。（虽然他和第一夫人在照片中戴了护眼设备）

But Andrew, a dog belonging to a BBC News reader in Nashville, Tennessee, was well-equipped for sky-gazing.

但是，Tennessee ，Nashville的BBC读者的宠物狗安德鲁都很好的戴上了护眼设备。

In the town of Greenville, South Carolina, one set of parents made a last-minute decision to name their daughter, born hours earlier, in honour of the eclipse that cast a spell over their country.

在南卡洛琳那的格林威尔镇，一对夫妇在最后决定用eclipse来作为他们刚刚降世的女儿和名字，为了纪念日食的时候他们生下了可爱的女儿。

Eclipse Alizabeth Eubanks weighed six pounds and three ounces, according to Greenville Memorial Hospital.

Eclipse有6磅3盎司重，该医院说。

The singer Bonnie Tyler helped mark the moment aboard a cruise ship as it sailed through the path of totality.

歌手Bonnie帮我们标记了这一时刻，她登上了随着日全食轨迹的巡游船。

She sang a shorter two minute, 40 second version of her 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart to match the longest duration of totality that was visible, near Carbondale, Illinois

Despite being decades old, the song cruised straight to the top of the iTunes charts.

在，卡本代尔的Illinois，她唱了她在1983年的歌曲Hit the Total Eclipse of Heart，为了和日全食持续的时间（最长的可视日全食）保持同步，歌曲稍短于2分40秒。

尽管是首十多年前的老歌，这首歌依然直接登顶了ITunes排行榜。

Media caption Bonnie Tyler performs her 1980s hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, to mark the total solar eclipse

媒体报道了Bonnie的表演，纪念日全食。

A different style of celebration took place at the Symbiosis Oregon Eclipse Festival in the Ochoco National Forest.

Free spirits there raised their hands to the skies.

在Symbiosis Oregon 日食节上，一种不同的庆祝纪念日全食的方式上演着。

人们举起他们的双手朝向天空。

All the while, ISS astronauts "photobombed" the solar eclipse - as this composite image shows.

同时，空间站的宇航员们也照下制作了了日全食的变化相片。

Finally, here are some of the most breathtaking photos of the solar eclipse, if you weren't lucky enough to see it with your own eyes.

这里也有一些令人惊叹的日食相片，如果你没有那么好的运气亲自观看日食可以欣赏一下。

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中国其实在十几年前也可以看到过，说起来，在我小学四年级还是五年级的时候在语文老师带领下看到了日偏食，后来上初中的时候，好像是初二也就08还是09年记得见到过日全食，真的很棒。

生词:

transfix

trans.fix

(træns`fɪks; trænsˈfiks)

<<及物动词>>

1 [用长矛等] 刺入…,刺穿,戳穿,刺住[with]

The fisherman ~ed the shark with a harpoon. 

渔夫用鱼叉刺住鲨鱼

2 <恐惧等> 使<人>呆立不动,使…木立不动

She stood ~ed with fear [wonder]. 

她因恐惧 [惊奇] 而呆立不动

heed

<<及物动词>>

留心,注意,留意

~ traffic regulations 

注意交通规则

<<不及物动词>>

注意

<<不可数名词>>

注意,留心,留意

give [pay] heed to 

﹍注意…,对…加以注意 [留意] 

take heed 

注意[…],提防,重视[of]

Take ~ of my advice. 

留意我的忠告

He takes no [little] ~ of what others say. 

他不 [很少] 留意别人的话 

breathtaking

breath.taking

<<形容词>>

1 令人紧张得屏住呼吸的,令人提心吊胆 [胆战心惊] 的

a ~ race 

令人胆战心惊 [紧张得透不过气来] 的竞赛

2 令人惊叹的

a ~ beauty 

令人惊叹的美人

<<副词>>

~.ly 

very impressive, exciting, or surprising:

      The view from my bedroom window was absolutely breathtaking.

从我的卧室向窗外看的风景相当的美。

美国习惯用语词典

cast a spell (on someone) 

1. to enchant someone with a magic spell. 

  The wizard cast a spell on the frog, turning it into a prince with bad skin. 

2. to intrigue and delight someone. 

  She is a real beauty. She cast a spell on every man she met.