All right, so 2024 is a leap year.

2024年是闰年。

We have a solar eclipse taken place in April, and it's a leap year.

四月有日食，今年又是闰年。

In a leap year, the dates jump over one day of the week.

在闰年，日期会跳过一周中的一天。

It's called a leap year and it's maybe the strangest thing we do on the calendar.

这被称为闰年，这可能是我们在日历上所做的最奇怪的事情。

Pope Gregory also made February 29th, the official date to add during a leap year.

格里高利还把2月29日确定为闰年的官方日期。

And the entire 12 month period with a February 29 in it is called a leap year.

12个月的时间里拥有2月29日的那一年被称为闰年。

We get 366 days on the calendar instead of 365. But why, what is a leap year?

日历上总共有366天，而不是365天。但是，这是为什么呢，闰年到底是什么？

To mark the start of the 366-day countdown (2012 is a leap year), special events are planned for today.

今天，人们计划举办独具特色的庆祝活动来启动伦敦奥运会366天倒计时（2012年是闰年）。

It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn't legally recognised.

在几百年前的英国，多出来的这一天并未得到法律认可。

The year 2000, the millennium, was a leap year.

千禧年 2000 年是闰年。

So, every 400 years the turn of the century is a leap year.

所以，每400年世纪之交就是一个闰年。

Since when are we 13? Is this a leap year?

我们咋就十三了呢 难道今年是闰年？

So, folks born on that date in a leap year will get to celebrate their birthdays on their actual birth date.

因此闰年那一天出生的人们会在这样的实际日期庆祝自己的生日。

He could not tell a calendar year from a leap year, lunar year or a solar year.

他分不清历年、闰年、太阴年或太阳年。

Therefore a year with 29 days in February is consequently called a leap year and that 29th day is sometimes called Leap Day.

因此，有着2月29日的这一天就被称为了“闰年”，29日这一天有时被叫做“闰日”。

The reason for a leap day or a leap year is because our calendar does not follow the Earth's orbit around the sun exactly.

闰日或闰年之所以出现，是因为我们的日历并不完全按照地球绕太阳的轨道运行。

Some people believe that it should be an official day off, because no one gets paid extra for working an extra day in a leap year.

有些人相信这一天应该成为你正式休息日，因为没有人在闰年多出来的这一天收到额外的工作酬劳。

This so-called tradition was even written in law in the 13th Century. Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year.

这个所谓的传统甚至在13世纪被列入法条当中。苏格兰通过了允许女士在闰年向男士求婚的法律。

They also worked out that every four years, we need an extra day to keep our calendar in sync – this is called a leap year.

他们还计算出， 每四年，我们需要额外的一天来保持我们的日历同步——这被称为闰年。