People often start counting "nine cold periods" starting from winter solstice.

人们通常从冬至开始计算“九个寒冷期”。

When winter solstice comes, it brings the shortest days of the year and the longest nights.

当冬至到来的时候，随之而来的是一年中最短的白昼和最长的黑夜。

They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, lesser cold and greater cold.

它们是：立冬、小雪、大雪、冬至、小寒和大寒。

According to scientific results, on Winter solstice, a right angle is formed by the sun and the tropic of carpricorn.

根据科学的结果，在冬至，太阳和南回归线形成了一个直角。

Because it's winter solstice today.

因为今天是冬至啊。

How do you celebrate winter solstice?

你们都怎么过冬至？

Happy winter solstice.

冬至快乐。

Ate the winter solstice rice, a long line.

吃了冬至饭，一天长一线。

The winter solstice eat dumplings, dumplings one heart.

冬至吃饺子，一个饺子一颗心。

Thee winter solstice eat dumplings, dumplings one heart.

冬至吃饺子，一个饺子一颗心。

Do Chinese celebrate the winter solstice? Is it important to you?

中国人过冬至吗？这天对你们重要吗？

During the Winter Solstice, Hangzhou residents traditionally eat rice cakes.

冬至期间，杭州的人们按照传统都会吃年糕。

The winter solstice, theoretically should be the dead of a year, but it is usually not that.

理论上讲，冬至应是全年最冷的时刻，但通常并不是这样。

From 1751 onwards, the Hall was used exclusively to pray for good harvests at the winter solstice.

在1751年前，这个大殿是在冬至时用来祈求来年有个好年景。

Then when was the last time that we had a total lunar eclipse occur on the same date as the winter solstice?

那么上一次人类在冬至时节看到月全食是什么时候呢？

Solstice is the name of the new baby giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo. It was born in December, on winter solstice.

索斯提斯（Solstice 中文意思为至日）是圣路易斯动物园（St. Louis Zoo）新生小长颈鹿的名字，它生于12月的冬至那天，因此得名。

At that time of year the winter solstice was coming, and the Sun was moving into a lower declination in the sky.

这是逐渐临近冬至的一段时间，太阳的赤纬也是不断地缩小。

I used to be a sheep, in the winter solstice this day even take hair and blood, meat eaten by you, for the cold.

我原是一只羊，在冬至这一天连肉带毛和血，被你吃了，为驱寒。

Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the official beginning of winter.

冬至在北半球是一年里最短的一天，同时也标志着冬天正式开始。

Today, though fewer families eat home-made cakes, people there still buy rice cakes for the Winter Solstice Festival.

现在虽然越来越少的家庭会吃自制的年糕，但是这里的人们仍然会为冬至而购买年糕。

Thelast total lunar eclipse visible from the U.S. occurred on Dec. 21, 2010, which coincided with winter solstice and was widely observed.

最近一次在美国可见的月全食发生在2010年12月21日，那天恰巧是冬至，所以月食能够被大多数地区观察到。

"Sanjiu period" refers to the third nine-day period (the 19th-27th days) after the day of the Winter Solstice, which is in Minor Cold.

“三九时节”指的是冬至过后第三个九天(第19到27天)，而“三九”就在小寒内。

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.

在几千年中，世界各地的文化都广泛庆祝冬至日，因为它是太阳回归的日子，是冬季潮汐变更方向的日子。

Once every 25, 800 years, the sun lines up with the centre of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.

每过25 800年，在冬至日，太阳都将与银河系的中心重合，太阳的最低点在地平线上。