On our spherical earth each segment delineates a lune called a time zone

在我们这第一个球形的地球上，被划成月牙形的每一个等分称为一个时区。

||For years Mrs Conder and her neighbours in the Lune Valley, in rural Lancashire, waited for telecoms firms to upgrade their sluggish internet connections.|| In 2011 they decided to do it for themselves. Their organisation, called Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN), has sold shares worth more than ￡1m ($1.7m) to buy ducts and cables for volunteers to install. Because younger residents are commonly busy with jobs and families, local pensioners have done much of the digging, says Mrs Conder: “Some are getting sixpacks for the first time in years.”

||1:康德夫人和她同住在兰开夏郡乡村半月谷的邻居们等待电信公司来升级他们龟速的网络连接已经多年了。||||2:2011年他们决心自己动手。||3:他们组建的名为北方农村宽带（B4RN）组织已卖出价值超过一百万英镑（一百七十万美元）的股票来购买管道和电缆来供志愿者们安装。康德夫人说，由于年轻的居民通常都忙于工作和家庭，所以当地退休者承担了大部分挖掘的工作。“有些人因此都头一次练出了腹肌。”

To grow beyond a mere curiosity, though, Britain’s altnets need more help. B4RN is a case in point. In two years its volunteers have laid 200km of cable, and wired up around 400 homes, without any taxpayer money.|| But to shore up the network they must now dig their cable under the River Lune . Until they raise more cash to dig a tunnel—perhaps as much as ￡50,000—that project is stalled.||

1:然而要继续发展证明不是一时兴起，英国altnets需要更多帮助。||||2:B4RN就是一个恰当的例子。||3:没花纳税人一分钱，志愿者在两年内铺设了200千米的电缆，约400家已联通。||4:但想要支撑整个网络。他们现在还需要在半月河河床下铺设电缆。||5:在他们筹备到足够的钱——也许多达5万英镑——来挖隧道之前，这个工程将停滞不前。||

Claire de Lune , our silver and black mottled Great Dane, always accompanies me, a few paces ahead and slightly off to one side.

克莱尔，一条银色和黑色相间的大丹犬（GreatDane）始终陪伴着我。它时而走我前面几十步开外，时而轻快地跑到我的一边。

The cardinal point and cardinal plane of lune thick-lens

弯月形厚透镜的基点和基面

geodesic lune

测地二角形

clair-de-lune

<法>月光的, 浅蓝色的

spherical lune

球面二角形

lune of a sphere

n.球面二角形,球面弓形