The experience of looking up and knowing that the sky you're looking at surrounds every known living thing in the universe is very profound.
仰望天空,并認(rèn)識到你正觀看的天空包圍著宇宙中所有的已知生物,這種感受意義深遠(yuǎn)。
Think about that for a moment. We are the only planet we know of that has life on it.
試想一下,我們是唯一已知的存在生命的星球。
The sky that you see is shared by every other living thing that we know of in existence.
你所看到的天空,是與已知世間萬物共享的,
One of the things that I really like about my work is that
我真正喜歡自己職業(yè)的一點(diǎn)是,
it allows me to step back from my every day and to experience the larger context,
它讓我拋開日常的生活,去體驗更豐富的內(nèi)涵,
this feeling that just as we go out and try to find planets in the universe that might be like ours,
這種感覺就好像我們遨游宇宙去尋找新的行星,可能和地球一樣的星球,
it always reminds me of how precious what we have here is.
這總是提醒我現(xiàn)在的生活有多么珍貴。

Our night sky is like a natural resource, it's as though it's a park that you can visit without ever having to travel there.
我們的夜空就像自然資源,就像一個無須經(jīng)歷旅游勞頓就可以參觀的公園。
But like any natural resource,
但是,就像其他的自然資源一樣,
if we don't protect it, if we don't preserve it and treasure it, it will slip away from us and be gone.
如果我們不去保護(hù)它、保存它和珍惜它,它將會從我們身邊消失。
So if you're interested in this, and this is something you want to learn more about,
因此,如果你們對此感興趣,如果這也是你想多了解的東西,
I encourage you in particular to visit darksky.org
我特別鼓勵你們?nèi)ピL問網(wǎng)站“darksky.org”,
and to learn more about the choices you can make that can protect the dark night sky,
去學(xué)習(xí)更多關(guān)于你能做出的選擇,來保護(hù)夜空,
because it belongs to everyone, it belongs to all of us, and therefore, it's ours to experience as we wish.
因為它屬于每個人,屬于我們所有人,所以,我們根據(jù)自己的愿望去行動。
And it's also ours to lose. Thank you.
成敗的責(zé)任,都在于我們自己。謝謝!