(单词翻译:单击)
To it the space between the heavenly bodies is not greater than the distance between the homes of our friends in town is for us,
各种行星之间的距离，不会比我们住在同一城市中的朋友的房子之间的距离大，
even if they live a short way from each other;
甚至于还不会比住在近邻的朋友的房子之间的距离大。
such an electric shock in the heart, however, costs us the use of the body here below;
不过在人间的世界里，我们的心一触电，我们就永远跟身体分家了。
unless, like the watchman of East Street, we happen to have on the Shoes of Fortune..
除非我们像守夜人一样穿上了幸运的套鞋，
In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to that moon, which,
在几秒钟之内，守夜人走了72.8万里，到月亮上面去了。
as everyone knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow.
我们知道，组成月球的物质比我们的地球要轻得多，而且还很柔软，像刚下的雪一样。
He found himself on one of the many circumjacent mountain-ridges with which we are acquainted by means of Dr. Madler's "Map of the Moon."
他来到一群数不清的山组成的大环形山——我们早就在麦特勒博士所绘的月球图上看到这些环形山——他来到其中的一座山上。
Within, down it sunk perpendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth;
在这一环大山当中，有一个像锅一样的深坑，它凹下去有八九里深。
while below lay a town, whose appearance we can,
坑下面有一个城市，我们可以看到它的外貌，
in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass of water.
它的形状很像装在玻璃杯里的水中的鸡蛋；
The matter of which it was built was just as soft, and formed similar towers, and domes, and pillars,
这儿的结构也是同样地轻，有尖塔、圆屋顶和像船帆一样的阳台，
transparent and rocking in the thin air; while above his head our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball.
浮在透明的、稀薄的空气中，我们的地球浮在他的头上像一个火红的大球。
He perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what we call "men" ;
他马上看见了许多的生物。这些东西无疑就是我们所谓的"人类"了，
yet they looked different to us.
不过他们的样子跟我们显然不同。
A far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel had created them;
一个比伪赫歇尔更正确的想象力创造了他们。
and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand,
如果它们是按等级排列的，并由某个技艺高超的画家临摹下来，
one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, "What a beautiful arabesque!"
毫无疑问，人们会不由自主地惊呼：“多么美丽的阿拉贝斯克啊!”
