考研英语双语阅读：“美国大日食”横跨14州

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Trumps on the White House balcony join the millions watching eclipse as totality sweeps eastwards across the US in celestial event-of-a-lifetime

百年一遇 超级日全食掀热潮 白昼如夜民众疯狂

The First Family gathered on the White House balcony to watch the first total solar eclipse to sweep across America in 99 years.

“第一家庭”在白宫阳台上观看时隔99年再次席卷美国的超级大日食。

President Donald Trump was joined on the terrace by wife Melania, his children Barron and Ivanka, and cabinet members including Jeff Sessions, for the once-in-a-lifetime event. At one point he even risked blindness by peeking at the sun without eclipse viewer glasses before an aide instructed him to put them on.

唐纳德.特朗普携妻子梅拉尼娅、孩子巴伦和伊万卡以及包括杰夫.塞克斯在内的内阁成员参与了此次千载难逢的盛事。期间，他甚至冒着失明的危险直接用裸眼看日食，直到他的助手指示他需要戴上日食眼镜。

Darkness swept across the US on Monday as the eclipse traveled from coast to coast, ending just before 3pm EDT in South Carolina.

周一，“美国大日食”横跨美国14州，黑暗席卷了几乎整个美国，在南卡罗莱纳的美国东部时间下午3点前结束。

The celestial event began in Oregon at just after 9am PDT, and by 10.20am, the sun was completely blocked out except for a halo-like solar corona plunging the area into twilight. Over the next 90 minutes, the total eclipse traveled through 14 different states until ending in South Carolina. The other 36 states were all treated to a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun.

当地时间21日早上9点，日食最先在俄勒冈州出现，到上午10点20分，太阳被完全遮挡，此时只能看见太阳的日晕，白天也变成了黄昏。之后的90分钟里，这一奇观穿越美国14周，最终在南卡罗来纳州结束。其他36个州也都发生了日偏食现象，在那里月球只覆盖了太阳的一部分。

One stunning picture of the eclipse showed the International Space Station clearly visible in front of the eclipsed sun, while in another, a plane was highlighted against the darkened sun, illuminated only by the solar corona.

一幅令人震惊的日食照片显示，国际空间站在日蚀下清晰可见，而在另一幅照片中，一架飞机在太阳日晕的照射下显现出来。

Millions had turned out to see the natural spectacle, including the Trumps and dozen of celebrities including the Kardashian clan, Ellen DeGeneres and Serena Williams.

数以百万的人目睹了这一自然景观，包括特朗普家族、卡戴珊家族、艾伦.德杰尼勒斯和塞雷娜.威廉姆斯。

In Oregon, locals ran out of their homes, with eclipse glasses or homemade contraptions in hand, to watch the moon fully cover the sun.

在俄勒冈州，当地人跑出家门，戴着日食眼镜或自制装置观看太阳被月亮完全遮住的过程。

’It’s really, really, really, really awesome,’ said 9-year-old Cami Smith as she watched the fully eclipsed sun from a gravel lane near her grandfather’s home at Beverly Beach, Oregon.

“这真的，真的，非常，非常棒，”9岁的卡米史密斯说，她在俄勒冈州贝弗利海滩的祖父家附近的沙砾巷看到了全日食。