纪录片《宇宙何其大》 第03期 裸眼

In the modern world,

在现代社会

few of us have skies dark enough to see the Milky¹ Way.

我们很少有机会能在漆黑的夜空中看见银河

But Nick plans to show us our home galaxy²

但是尼克准备向我们展示

like we've never seen it before.

银河系不为人知的一面

I'm trying to give people that broad, big-picture understanding

我想要人们对头顶的夜空

of the entire night sky where they fit into that.

有一个全面且宏观的认识

Our galaxy has nearly half a trillion stars.

我们的银河系有近五千亿颗恒星

Most of them are too dim and distant to see.

大多数由于太暗又太远 我们无法看到

But Nick's cameras

但是尼克的相机

are more than 2,000 times more sensitive than the naked eye.

比裸眼灵敏两千多倍

If I had known how much work it would be going into it,

如果我早知道这项工作如此繁琐艰巨

I probably wouldn't have even started.

我可能根本就不会开始

But my personality is, once you start something, you finish it.

但照我的性格 做事必须有始有终

After two years, he's photographed 20 million stars...

他花了两年时间拍摄了三万七千多张照片

by stitching³ together more than 37,000 separate images.

将它们拼接而成 最终得到两千万颗恒星

1 milky   

adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的

参考例句：

• Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
• I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。

2 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

3 stitching   

n.用U字钉钉箱，缝纫v.缝，缝补，缝合( stitch的现在分词 )；[引申]把某物连在一起

参考例句：

• The nurse cleansed the wound before stitching it. 护士先把伤口弄干净后才把它缝合。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• There was only homemade thread for stitching up wounds. 缝伤口用的线只有国产的。 来自辞典例句