One day before the vernal equinox. Dad? - Yeah. Mark that.

春分点的前一天 爸? - 画个记号。

Happening on March 20th this year, the vernal equinox marks the start of spring.

在今年的3月20日，春分标志了春天的开始。

Ten-second trivia: The vernal equinox marks the start of what season?

十秒冷知识速答：春分标志着什么季节的开始？

April Fools Day is also been linked to the vernal equinox and the start of spring.

愚人节也被用来庆祝春分和春天的开始。

A wish to shout and sing, As, filled with hope and gladness, We hail the vernal Spring.

我们多么想大声呼唤和歌唱，我们呼唤春天来了，心中充满了希望和喜悦。

If there's one thing that unites a lot of the creatures living in vernal pools, it's their extreme lifestyle.

如果说有一件事将很多生活在春池中的生物连在一起，那就是它们极端的生活方式。

Yesterday was officially the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal or Spring equinox in the southern one.

昨天是北半球的秋分，南半球的春分。

Collinge studies these electric yellow flowers that bloom as vernal pools dry up.

科林格研究的是春池干涸时绽放的电黄色花朵。

And if vernal pools had a mascot, it would probably be these fairy shrimp.

如果春池有吉祥物的话，可能是这些仙女虾。

Simply put, the Songkran Festival is a celebration of the vernal equinox.

简单地说，泼水节是庆祝春分的节日。

He was so versatile that he even wrote many vernal verses with vernacular.

他是如此多才多艺，竟可以用方言写了许多清新的韵文。

Intagliata: The vernal pools became farmland, houses, shopping centers.

Intagliata：春天的水池变成了农田、房屋和购物中心。

And maybe that's why I'd never even heard of this place or vernal pools at all.

也许这就是为什么我从来没有听说过这个地方或春池的原因。

The vernal equinox, in March, marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.

春分在三月份，标志着北半球春季的开始，以及南半球秋季的开始。

It's sort of the unofficial mascot of vernal pools and my personal favorite: the fairy shrimp.

它是春池的非官方吉祥物，也是我个人的最爱：仙女虾。

Exactly.... and we're incredibly happy to be the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp in southern California.

没错。我们非常高兴能成为南加州春池仙女虾的储存地。

And well, fairy shrimp are sort of the rock star of the vernal pool, the life there goes way beyond fairy shrimp.

仙女虾是春池的主角，那里的生命远远不只是仙女虾。

During the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the sun is directly over the equator, so day and night are considered to be the same length.

在春分和秋分期间，太阳直射赤道，因此白昼和黑夜有着相同的长度。

Vernal pools occur on these mesa tops, which were once at the bottom of an ocean.

春池出现在这些台地的山顶上，而那里曾经是海底。

And all that rain's been a really good thing for what I came to see: vernal pools.

而对于长春池——我要看的东西——来说，这些雨水是个好事。