口語進階-敘事口語材料：地球的公轉01

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原文及翻譯

One year is the time required for the earth to travel around the sun. For most of history, however, people did not know that the earth moved around the sun. Instead, people believed that the sun moved around the earth. The old idea that the sun moved around the earth is known as the geocentric theory. 

一年是地球繞太陽運轉一圈所需的時間。然而，在歷史的大部分時間里，人們并不知道地球繞著太陽轉。相反，人們相信太陽繞著地球轉。太陽繞著地球轉的舊觀點被稱為地心說。

This idea was first made famous by an ancient Greek scientist, Ptolemy, who lived in Egypt nearly 2000 years ago. Some other Greek philosophers had suggested instead that the earth might travel around the sun. However, this idea, which is known as the heliocentric theory, was not widely accepted for centuries. 

這一觀點最早是由一位生活在埃及的古希臘科學家托勒密提出的，他大約在 2000 年前就生活在埃及。其他一些希臘哲學家則認為地球可能繞著太陽轉。然而，這一被稱為日心說的觀點在幾個世紀內并未被廣泛接受。

People in Europe did not seriously question Ptolemy's geocentric theory. During the early 15th century, however, a Polish astronomer named Nicholas Copernicus began to think that the heliocentric idea was right and that the geocentric idea was wrong. 

歐洲人并沒有認真質疑托勒密的地心說。然而，在 15 世紀初，一位名叫尼古拉斯·哥白尼的波蘭天文學家開始認為日心說是正確的，而地心說是錯誤的。

Shortly before his death, Copernicus wrote a book that described the mathematical details of his theory that the earth revolved or traveled around the sun.

哥白尼在去世前不久寫了一本書，描述了他的地球繞太陽旋轉或運轉理論的數學細節(jié)。

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