翻译练习

【Raising our eyes from the earth to observe the heavenly objects,】） （occupied by lightin carrying to us information about those distant） 句子主干是：we find a space

Raising …………objects 做状语，修饰主句

Of time做定语修饰space

Occupied。。。。。过去分词做time的定语

Carrying。。。。。distant做lighting的定语

about those distant 做information的定语

The Effect of Light Speed

Raising our eyes from the earth to observe the heavenly objects, we find a really considerable space of time occupied by light in carrying to us information about those distant bodies. From the moon light takes little more than a second and a quarter in reaching us; so that we obtain sufficiently early information of the condition of our satellite. But light occupies more than eight minutes in reaching us from the sun; a longer or shorter interval in travelling to us from Mercury, Venus, and Mars, according to the position of these planets; from about thirty- five to fifty minutes in reaching us from Jupiter; about an hour and twenty minutes on the average in speeding across the great gap which separates us from Saturn; while we receive information from Uranus and Neptune only after intervals twice and three times as great as that which light takes to come from the ringed planet, Saturn.