Trail路线
Follow the Stars跟着星走
How the night sky left traces in language.夜空留在语言里的痕迹。
A walk through words the sky left behind. It is not a chronology, and it is not a lesson in astronomy. English star and Greek astron are cousins. The learned family was built on the Greek word. Near the end, a common verb may carry a different Latin star, and the doubt stays visible.
穿过天空留下的那些词。这不是年表，也不是一堂天文学课。英语 star 和希腊语 astron 是表亲。那一族学术词建在希腊语的词上。靠近尽头，一个普通动词也许带着另一颗拉丁语的星，疑问仍然看得见。
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star
Begin with the English word. It did not come from Greek, and that is the interesting part.从英语这个词开始。它不是从希腊语来的，这正是有趣的地方。
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astronomy
A Greek cousin: the ordering of the stars.一位希腊语表亲：为星辰排序。
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astrology
For a long time, reading the stars and ordering them were not separate crafts.很长一段时间里，解读星辰和给它们排序并不是两门分开的手艺。
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disaster
Then a star could be blamed.然后，一颗星可以被责备。
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astronaut
Leave the omen. The same root was built, much later, into a word for a traveler.离开征兆。同一条根很久以后才被造成一个表示旅行者的词。
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astrolabe
Step back from the voyage to an older instrument: a tool for taking the height of a star.从航行退回一件更老的仪器：用来取得星的高度的工具。
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consider
Before you leave the sky: a common verb that may carry a different Latin star.离开天空之前：一个普通动词，也许带着另一颗拉丁语的星。
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