Manx comets, like their tail-wagging brethren, come from the Oort cloud.

马恩岛猫彗星，和它们带有慧尾的兄弟一样，来自奥尔特云。

Manx comets and their kittens suggest this is exactly what occurred.

马恩岛猫彗星和它们的小猫表明，这些假说是成立的。

Business might shift to avoid the new rules. One Manx official worries about competition from the British Virgin Islands.

该行业或许会为了规避新的规则而转移。一名曼岛官员担心来自英属维尔京群岛的竞争。

A Manx comet, by contrast, is presumably a solid (and thus ice-free) lump of rock.

相比之下，马恩岛猫彗星很可能是一块固体的(不含冰的)岩石。

A better comparator for Manx products is financial advice, where commissions have been slashed.

对曼岛的产品来说，一个更好的对比是财务咨询，财务咨询业务的佣金已经被削减。

For a Manx comet, the warning time would be hopelessly short.

对于一颗马恩岛彗星，预警时间短得无可救药。

Notably, the Manx operations of Zurich Insurance, a global insurer, focus on life-insurance and pensions schemes for the employees of multinational firms.

全球保险公司苏黎世保险在曼岛开展的业务尤其专注于为跨国公司的员工提供人寿保险和养老金项目。

Unhappily for Manx firms, these products are sold with hefty commissions. Some of their brokers in far-flung countries charge 6-7% of a policy's value.

不幸的是，对曼岛的公司来说，出售这些产品能获取高额的佣金。其中一些遥远国度的经纪人的收费是一项保险单价值的6-7%。

The four-tiered mound at Tynwald survives to this day, and the modern Manx parliament still holds an annual meeting there.

Tynwald 的四层土墩保存至今，现代马恩岛议会仍在那里举行年度会议。

The first Manx comet, so called after the tailless cats of the Isle of Man, was spotted in 2014 by a telescope in Hawaii.

2014年，人类利用夏威夷的一台望远镜发现了第一颗无尾彗星，并将其以马恩岛上的无尾猫命名，称为“马恩岛猫彗星”。

The Manx kings attempted to resolve disagreements at Tynwald, an open-air parliament centered on a mound, where assemblies ruled on matters of justice and other issues.

马恩岛国王试图在 Tynwald 解决分歧，Tynwald 是一个以土墩为中心的露天议会， 议会在这里就正义和其他问题作出裁决。

OK, so it's unrelated to England well it's an Indo-European language, but it's a different branch of the... - Yes, it's in the same family as Welsh and Breton, Manx.

好的，所以它和英国没有关系，它是一种印欧语，但它是不同的分支… -是的，它和威尔士语、布雷顿语、马恩岛是一个家族。

Those on the Isle of Man were known as the Manx people, while those in the Hebrides were known as Islanders or People of the Isles.

马恩岛上的人被称为曼克斯人，而赫布里底群岛的人被称为岛民或群岛人。

Certainly, as I watched the Manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn as if it too questioned the universe, something seemed lacking, something seemed different.

当然，当我看着曼克斯猫停在草坪中央， 仿佛它也在质疑宇宙时， 似乎缺少了什么， 似乎有些不同。

The first Manx comet, so called after the tailless cats of the Isle of Man, was spotted in 2014 by a telescope in Hawaii (see photograph).

2014 年，夏威夷的望远镜发现了第一颗曼克斯彗星，以马恩岛的无尾猫命名（见照片）。

This figure, which matches what other researchers have concluded is the proportion of comets which are of the Manx variety, matters to those interested in the formation of the solar system.

这个数字与其他研究人员得出的马恩岛猫彗星占彗星总体的比重相一致，这个数字也对那些对太阳系形成感兴趣的人来说十分重要。

This began a century-long rivalry between Somerled's line, who ruled the southern and central Hebrides, and the Manx Kings, who ruled the Isle of Man and northern Hebrides, to control the seaways.

这开始了统治赫布里底群岛南部和中部的萨默雷德家族与统治马恩岛和赫布里底群岛北部的马恩岛国王之间长达一个世纪的争夺，以控制海道。