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here were at least fifty-two musicians in the family of Johann Sebastian Bach.
    約翰·賽巴斯蒂安·巴赫家族中,至少有52位音樂家。
    Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
    羅馬塑像的頭是可以同身體分開的,這樣就可以將原來的頭取下?lián)Q上一個。
    Jupiter is the largest planet, and it has the shortest day. Although Jupiter has a circumference of 280,000 miles, compared with Earth's 25,000, Jupiter manages to make one turn in nine hours and fifty-five minutes.
    木星是(太陽系中)的行星,但木星的一天卻最短。盡管木星的圓周有280,000英里,而地球只有25,000英里,木星每9小時55分自轉(zhuǎn)一圈。
    A war was ended by a solar eclipse——and became the oldest event on Earth that can be dated to the exact day. The armies of Lydia and Media were preparing for battle in Asia Minor when the eclipse occurred. Sobered by the event, the two nations signed a peace treaty. Modern astronomers have fixed the date of that eclipse at May 28, 585 B.C.
    一場戰(zhàn)爭因為一次日食而結束——成為世界上可定出確切日期的最遠古的事件。呂底亞和米底亞正準備在小亞細亞作戰(zhàn),突然發(fā)生了日食,于是兩國簽約講和?,F(xiàn)代天文學家已計算出,那次日食的時間是公元前585年5月28日。