In the modern world,
在現代社會
few of us have skies dark enough to see the Milky Way.
我們很少有機會能在漆黑的夜空中看見銀河
But Nick plans to show us our home galaxy
但是尼克準備向我們展示
like we've never seen it before.
銀河系不為人知的一面
I'm trying to give people that broad, big-picture understanding
我想要人們對頭頂的夜空
of the entire night sky where they fit into that.
有一個全面且宏觀的認識
Our galaxy has nearly half a trillion stars.
我們的銀河系有近五千億顆恒星
Most of them are too dim and distant to see.
大多數由于太暗又太遠 我們無法看到
But Nick's cameras
但是尼克的相機
are more than 2,000 times more sensitive than the naked eye.
比裸眼靈敏兩千多倍
If I had known how much work it would be going into it,
如果我早知道這項工作如此繁瑣艱巨
I probably wouldn't have even started.
我可能根本就不會開始
But my personality is, once you start something, you finish it.
但照我的性格 做事必須有始有終
After two years, he's photographed 20 million stars...
他花了兩年時間拍攝了三萬七千多張照片
by stitching together more than 37,000 separate images.
將它們拼接而成 最終得到兩千萬顆恒星
重點解釋:
1.few of 少量的
例句:Only a few of my friends were informed about it.
這件事只有我的幾個朋友知道
2.most of 大多數
例句:Most of the paint had crumbled off.
油漆大都剝落。
3.more than 超過
例句:This city has a population of more than 1,000,000.
這個城市人口超過一百萬。