1. But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars,
    如果这个世界不只是一个拙劣的恶作剧，如果人生不只是群星寒光中平凡的一闪，

2. But other suns, stars as the astronomers call them, are bound to have planets like our own, and as the number of stars in the universe is so vast, this possibility becomes virtual certainty.
    但是，其他的太阳，既天文学家所说的恒星，肯定会有像我们地球一样的行星。因为宇宙中恒星的数目极其庞大，所以存在着产生生命星球的这种可能性是肯定无疑的。

3. But the stars are so far away that their light still takes years to reach us.
    但是由于星星离我们太远，以至于它们的光到达我们这里需要好些年时间。

4. But some still emerged as stars, while others were never very successful.
    但是其中一些仍能够脱颖而出，而另一些则一直成就平平。

5. William S.Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars,
    威廉.S.哈特大概是美国西部电影明星中的佼佼者。

6. The eternal motion of stars fascinated him.
    星体永恒的运作使他着迷。

7. There are thousands of stars in the sky.
    天上有成千上万的星星。

8. The American flag is the Stars and Stripes.
    美国国旗是星条旗。

9. There are one hundred thousand million stars in our own Milky Way alone, and then there are three thousand million other Milky Ways, or galaxies, in the universe. So the number of stars that we know exist is now estimated at about 300 million million
    仅我们的银河系就有1000亿颗星，况且在宇宙中还有30亿个天河，即银河系。因此，我们所知道的现有恒星数目估计约有30亿X1000亿颗。

10. The stars we see at night are really huge suns like our sun, but they are farther away in space.
    我们晚上看到的星星，其实都是和太阳一样巨大的恒星，只不过是在更远的宇宙空间罢了。