1·Ptolemy charted more than 1,000 stars in 48 constellations.
托勒密绘制了48个星座中1000多颗星的星图。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The wisdom of the day was derived from Ptolemy, an astronomer of the second century, whose elaborate system of the sky put Earth at the center of all heavenly motions.
当时的智慧来自于二世纪的天文学家托勒密，他的复杂天空体系把地球置于所有天体运动的中心。
3·The wisdom of the day was derived from Ptolemy, an astronomer of the second century, whose elaborate system of the sky put Earth at the center of all heavenly motions.
当时的智慧来自于二世纪的天文学家托勒密，他的复杂天空体系把地球置于所有天体运动的中心。
4·Earlier, the Babylonians had attempted to map the world, but they presented it in the form of a flattened disc rather than a sphere, which was the form adopted by Ptolemy.
在这以前更早的时候，巴比伦人曾经企图绘制世界地图，但是巴比伦人绘制成一个扁平的圆盘形，而不是绘制像托勒密所绘制的球形。
5·First, the former Lake Ptolemy (not, in fact, a new discovery) lay in the far north, in what is now a desert, hundreds of kilometres from the refugee camps.
首先，之前的托勒密湖(实际上并非新被发现)位于最北端，现在是蛮荒之地，在难民营的数百公里之外。