For thousands of years, humans have looked to the sky for meaning and inspiration. Ancient people in Mesopotamia began recording what they observed in the sky around 4,000 years ago. After that, Babylonian scholars wrote detailed accounts of how stars and planets move in the night sky. They divided the sky into 12 sections and tracked which planets and stars appeared in each section at different times of the year. Based on their observations, the Babylonians created what we now call the zodiac, which includes 12 signs.
數千年來，人類仰望星空，尋求意義和靈感。大約四千年前，美索不達米亞的古人就開始記錄他們從天空觀察到的景象。之後，巴比倫學者詳細記述了星星和行星在夜空中的運行軌跡。他們將天空劃分為十二個區域，並追蹤一年中每個區域在不同時間出現的行星和星星。基於他們的觀察結果，巴比倫人創造了我們現在所稱的黃道十二宮，它包含十二個符號。
生活必備字詞：
observe vt. 觀察
observation n. 觀察結果
scholar n. 學者
account n. 敘述，說明
divide A into B 把 A 分成 B
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