Better still, the quality of her drawings was so consistent, researchers used them as a baseline to reconstruct the past 400 years of sunspot activity from various historical sources.

更棒的是，她绘图的质量始终如一得高，因此研究人员们将其绘图作为基准线，通过众多历史资料，重构了过去 400 年的太阳黑子活动。

Any longer and—for me, at least—the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave during a period of severe sunspot activity.

至少对我来说，超过了这个时间的话故事就会产生一种奇怪的异质感，就像是罗马尼亚公共事务部派出的一支小分队，或是太阳黑子活动剧烈的时候高频短波收音机里播出的声音。