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，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，因為它是太陽回歸的日子，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，長計歷的結(jié)束日——2012年冬至，會是瑪雅人天文學知識的證明，考古天文學家阿維尼如是說。

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