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世界上最远的距离,是出生在今天的人等生日

今天是……2月29日!四年等一回的今天终于来了。因为这额外多出来的一天,2016不再是365天,而是变成了366。所以,这神秘的一天究竟是什么来历呢?

Leap days are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the Sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.242189 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds – to circle once around the Sun. This called a tropical year.

闰日是为了让我们的日历可以和地球对太阳的公转保持一致。地球绕太阳转一圈需要365.242189天 – 或365天零5小时48分45秒。这被称为一回归年。

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Without an extra – or intercalary – day on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours every year.

如果没有每四年额外的闰日——2月29日,我们每年会失去将近6小时。

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在中国的纪年中,拥有2月29日的年份被称为“闰年”。而在英语世界中,闰年却被称为“Leap Year”。这个名称是如何来的呢?

The name “leap year” comes from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, the day of the week in a leap year will advance two days due to the extra day added at the end of February (thus “leaping over” one of the days in the week).

闰年”(Leap Year,直译为“跳跃之年”)的名称来源于一个事实:在公历中,从一年进入到下一年时,一个特定的日期会在那个星期里往前错一天,而在闰年时,那个日子会因为2月底额外加上的一天,而在那个星期里往前错两天(因此“跳过了”那个星期里的某一天)。(注:非闰年365天=一周7天×52周+1天,而闰年366天=一周7天×52周+2天)

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For example, Christmas fell on Tuesday in 2001, Wednesday in 2002, and Thursday in 2003 but then “leapt” over Friday to fall on a Saturday in 2004.

例如,圣诞节落在2001年的周二,2002年的周三,2003年的周四,但“跳过了”周五,而落在了2004年的星期六。

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2月29日这天是“国际女性表白日”,在这天女人可以向男人表白求爱,如果男人拒绝的话,需要送安慰礼物给女方!这项传统已经有2000多年了。

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According to an old Irish legend, St. Brigid struck a deal with St. Patrick to allow women to propose to men – and not just the other way around – every four years. This is believed to have been introduced to balance the traditional roles of men and women in a similar way to how leap day balances the calendar.

根据古老的爱尔兰传说,圣布里吉德与圣帕特里克达成协议,允许每隔四年,妇女可以向男人求婚——而不是反过来。这被认为是用来平衡男性和女性的传统角色,就如同闰日平衡了日历一样。

而且最棒的是,如果男士在这天残忍地拒绝了女士的求婚,他还需要受惩罚哦。

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In many European countries, especially in the upper classes of society, tradition dictates that any man who refuses a woman’s proposal on February 29 has to buy her 12 pairs of gloves. The intention is that the woman can wear the gloves to hide the embarrassment of not having an engagement ring.

在许多欧洲国家,尤其是在上流社会,传统习俗规定所有在2月29日拒绝女士求婚的男士,必须为她买12副手套。其目的是这位女士可以戴着手套来掩盖手上没有订婚戒指的尴尬。

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这张漫画描绘了“闰日”的有趣场景:其中一个男人的身上挂着牌子“我已经有3个老婆” 了(I’ve got 3 wives already)

A 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man; compensation was deemed to be a pair of leather gloves, a single rose, £1 and a kiss.

苏格兰玛格丽特女王在1288年推行了一项法律(当时5岁,居住在挪威),要求男士如果拒绝求婚则需要支付罚款;补偿可以是一副皮手套,一支玫瑰,1英镑和一个吻。

不仅如此,这个节日还有一部同名电影哦!2010年上映的《闰年》,由艾米·亚当斯(Amy Adams)和大帅哥马修·古迪(Mathew Goode)主演。

 

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The film is about a woman who heads to Ireland to ask her boyfriend to accept her wedding proposal on leap day, when tradition supposedly holds that men cannot refuse a woman’s proposal for marriage. Her plans are interrupted by a series of increasingly unlikely events and are further complicated when she hires a handsome innkeeper to take her to her boyfriend in Dublin.

这部电影是关于一个前往爱尔兰,打算在闰日向男友求婚的女人,因为传统规定男人不能在那天拒绝女士的求婚。她的计划被一系列小概率事件打断,在她雇佣了一个帅气的店主带她去都柏林找男友之后,这一切变得更复杂了。

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这是一部轻松的爱情喜剧,可是结局也是可以预知的;毕竟有了马修·古迪在,谁还记得前男友?

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每个在2月29日出生的宝宝,每四年才能过一个生日。为了避免他们4年才可以长一岁,不同的国家对他们什么时候过生日也有了不同的规定:

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Many countries have laws defining which date a person born on February 29 comes of age in legal terms. For instance in New Zealand, the official birthday falls on February 28 in common years; in other countries like the United Kingdom, leap year babies have to wait until March 1.

许多国家制定了法律来规定出生在2月29日的人如何界定年龄。比如在新西兰,官方生日是普通纪年的2月28日;在其他国家比如英国,闰年宝宝需要等到3月1日。

2月29日不仅四年才有一次,这天还有这么多独特而有趣的故事。所以,趁着今天还没结束,女孩子们快去表白吧,错过今天又要等四年哦!

世界上最远的距离,是出生在今天的人等生日

 

 

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