winter solstice

基本解釋

The Mayan calendar predicts that a doomsday event will occursomewhere in the Northern Hemisphere during winter solstice in theyear 2012.
瑪雅歷法預(yù)言：2012年冬至之時(shí)，北半球的某些地方將會發(fā)生災(zāi)難性的事件。
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For thousands of years, cultures the world over feted the winter solstice as the moment of the sun’s return, the turning of the wintry tide.
在幾千年中，世界各地的文化都廣泛慶祝冬至日，因?yàn)樗翘柣貧w的日子，是冬季潮汐變更方向的日子。
Even so, the end date of the current Long Count cycle—winter solstice 2012—may be evidence of Maya astronomical skill, said Aveni, the archaeoastronomer.
雖然如此，長計(jì)歷的結(jié)束日——2012年冬至，會是瑪雅人天文學(xué)知識的證明，考古天文學(xué)家阿維尼如是說。

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