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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
Happy New Year! And if you've been away from work for a few days, you deserve some time off. After all, you've traveled far. Even if you just stayed at home. According to NASA, just by being on the planet Earth in the last year, you've zipped about 584 million miles around the sun. At an average speed of about 67,000 miles per hour. (Siren sound.) Hey, I wasn't speeding—in my inertial reference frame.

Of course, the trip was not a perfect circle. As Kepler showed, the Earth's orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one of the two focal points. He also figured out the planet goes faster when it's at perihelion, nearer the sun, than when it's at aphelion, its farthest distance. Which would explain why summer seems to zip by, except that the seasons are a function of the tilt of the Earth's axis, not its different distances from the sun. And the Earth rotated 365 and a quarter times during its sweep around the sun. The trip took 8,766 hours. Or 525,960 minutes. Or 31,557,600 seconds. Tick tock.
For Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.

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新年快乐！如果你远离了工作几天，那是你应得的休息;8-%gSWXvqhP8q0Mf。毕竟，你已经走了很远&kRR2D_gbW。即使你只是待在家里DoW^aTeds*9+Vnvc。据美国航空航天局的说法，仅仅是待在地球上，去年一年你就已经围绕太阳移动了5.84亿英里了cyv^1k_(q4!(B。平均速度为每小时6.7万英里Ib|Q%u|rA.A7~%c。（警笛声）Dw;xICx9])h;mzSS!9。嘿，在我的惯性参考坐标系中，我没有超速OT^6T9M~7_;d-GJ。
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谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学boJkpS!;;oYJ#airtgC。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基Znt%)(UvM1wJ[%%qkSJX。

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重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. after all 毕竟；终究；
例句：There is no need to pick at him all day long. He's a child after all.
不要老是对他唠唠叨叨，他毕竟还是个孩子嘛！
2. even if 即使；尽管；纵然；
例句：Even if you are not good at it in the beginning, you can become good at it through hard work at improving your skills.
即使最开始你不擅长也没关系，你可以通过努力提高技能最终变得擅长0t9.!p_xX@Ftf。
3. according to 据…所说；按…所载；
例句：The $60 billion a year wedding industry is hurting as much as the rest of the economy, according to a recent Bloomberg article.
据彭博社最近一篇文章报道，同其他行业一样，年营业额高达600亿美元的婚礼行业也受到经济危机的冲击7=Kn6g;^l8b)4&(q@。
4. figure out 想出；理解；弄清；
例句：Companies everywhere are trying to figure out ways to help employees juggle their work and family life.
全世界各地的企业都在试图找出帮助员工平衡家庭和事业的方法)G.tshbe|w]9ARE&|o6。