So what ends up happening is that I could almost fill in the ellipses.

最后的结果是，我几乎可以把这些省略的部分填满。

For one thing, it's not a perfect circle, it's quite an elongated ellipse.

至少不是标准的形，而更像是拉长的。

An ellipse is an asymmetrically shaped closed oval.

任何都是对称封闭的形。

This ellipse has an important property called eccentricity.

有重要的性质，叫做离心率。

The " n" goes into the " o" , an ellipses it's called.

" n" 进入" o" ，是省略。

Eccentricity measures how flattened an ellipse is compared to a circle.

偏心率衡量的是相比的扁平度。

As Kepler showed, the earth's orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one of the two focal points.

像开普勒曾指出的，地球的轨道是，相对以太阳为中心绕起来的话有两焦点。

As the planet orbits the star, it makes a big circle (or ellipse) .

当行星围绕恒星运行时，它会形成大(或)。

Now, Newton predicted that the orbit of Mercury was an oval, or as scientists like to say " an ellipse."

牛顿预测的水星轨道是的，或者用科学家惯用的词，“形”。

The rough transcript also contains ellipses at three points where Mr. Trump is speaking.

这份粗略的文字记录还略去了三处，特朗普均为说话人的内容。

The further apart the foci are, the more squashed the ellipse is.

焦点距离越远，受到的挤压越大。

Remember too that the Moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse.

同样要记住的是，月亮绕地球的公转轨道是。

It has two points, called foci, which act as a combined center for an ellipse.

它有两点，称为焦点，作为的联合中心。

Not only that, the Moon orbits the Earth on an ellipse.

不仅如此，月球绕地球公转的轨道是形的。

Instead, they generally have a stretched version of a circle, which is technically called an ellipse.

相反，它们通常有形的拉伸公转，也是。

Well, an ellipse is a shape that resembles a kind of squashed circle.

是种类似于被压扁的的形状。

Well, a is the semi-major axis, or half the distance along the long axis of the ellipse.

a 是半长轴，或者说长轴的距离的半。

Its foci are two points within the ellipse that describe its shape.

它的焦点是内描述其形状的两点。

Simply put, eccentricity tells how much the ellipse deviates from a perfect circle.

简单地说，离心率表示正的偏离程度。

And b is the semi-minor axis, or half the distance along the short axis of the ellipse.

b 是半短轴，或者说短轴的距离的半。