中英文本

Every 11 years, the sun's magnetic activity ramps up, sometimes to a frenzy, causing large sunspots and strong flares.
每隔11年，太阳磁场活动便会加强，有时更会变得狂暴形成巨大的太阳黑子及强烈的太阳风暴r%S)zcV^ZZ8VG&。
Right now we should be in the middle of such a solar maximum.
而此时此刻我们应该是出于太阳磁场活动最高峰的阶段[e*;rd7nW7t%Xti[^^。
But we've yet to see the expected level of activity.
但我们一直还没亲眼得见所期待的那些活动M*h5c]v&91)@DW。
In fact, this latest solar max has been a bit of a dud.
事实上，这一次的太阳活动出现了点小问题yXsec!8F_]w+TY96u。
“Compared to say the five or six previous cycles, this is really weak.”
“同5或6年前的活动周期相比，这次真的很弱~X3@rgOo1KDM。”

That's astronomer Sarbani Basu of Yale University, at the 224th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston on June 3rd.
这是6月3日于波士顿举行的美国天文协会第224届会议上耶鲁大学天文学家萨巴尼巴斯的原话hY&J*KhRm%&&。
“And then when we went back and started comparing with whatever little data we had of the previous cycles, we realized it may not be that peculiar after all.”
“而当我们再次与之前相关太阳活动周期研究中的任何数据进行比对，我们意识到这次也许没什么特别的#]KFU0y[FFWU。”
We don't really know yet whether the current cycle is the oddball, or if previous cycles were unusually strong.
我们仍然还是不清楚当前发生的这次周期活动是否是真的奇怪，或者是以前的那些活动异常强烈FxV[FKIXZ(V4VuUv-wz。
Ground-based telescopes started closely monitoring solar activity only around 60 years ago.
地球上的天文望远镜密切监测太阳周期的活动只有60余年的历史AjknM(@DLx;GC。
And high-quality space-based observations go back just a decade—not even a full solar cycle.
而高质量的空间探测活动也才有十余年历史—甚至没有达到一个太阳活动周期的时间GE.V7t%Bw&Y2。
So astronomers are eagerly awaiting what the future can tell us.
所以天文学家们正热切期盼着未来的研究|uW]A&=5b.ySDXK(r(。
“It's going to be fun the next few years, I'm looking forward to it.”
“接下来的几年想来会非常有趣，我拭目以待Aqhr-Qo^ZXg02-nW9。”
词语解释

1.ramp up加强，加大

Health experts say china needs to ramp up its efforts to target these groups and others more effectively.
卫生专家说，中国需要加大力度，使预防措施更有效地针对这些群体;pqmHX+H4a。

If the ghost is a success, production will ramp up quickly in the last quarter of the year.
如果古斯特能取得成功，公司就将会在本年度最后一个季度提高生产kiB3-Z,&LtXY3z1%WS。

2.after all 毕竟；究竟

There's not much risk involved, after all.
毕竟此举风险不大Uv0YbXqRai3#[f5o。

We're doing this, after all, to drive business.
归根结底我们从事设计的目的还是为了推动公司的业绩yO_dj6eGM0@7YB*As;uh。

3.solar cycle 太阳活动周期

Late solar cycle events featured in space weather week 2005.
2005年空间天气周的近期太阳周期事件特征vx,TQ8]9Vsiwef1X。

Fair space weather for solar cycle 24.
太阳循环24小时的晴天空间Gt@wrvDDjspPg+。