The Forty-ninth Of Word-Day

一：文章
Vocabulary. eclipse.
One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time.
There could be no movement because time and movement cannot be separated.
A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes, for time and change are linked.
We know that time has passed when something changes.
In the real world, the world with time, changes never stop.
Some changes happen only once in a while like an eclipse of the moon.
Others happen repeatedly, like the rising and setting of the sun.
Humans always have noted natural events that repeat themselves.
When people began to count such events, they began to measure time.

二：单词
eclipse:英 [ɪ'klɪps]
n. （天体的）食；日食，月食；（重要性、权势等的）黯然失色；（尤指雄鸭的）羽毛暗淡期；（交配期后不复鲜艳的）非婚羽
An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one object moves into the shadow of another. 
食是一种天文现象，只在一个物体移动至另一物体的阴影中时才发生。

v. 遮住……的光；（诗、文）遮暗；（使）黯然失色
...the space programme has been eclipsed by other pressing needs.
…这项太空计划和其他的紧迫需要相比已经黯然失色了。

separated:英 ['sepəreɪtɪd]
adj. 分开的；分居；不在一起生活的
My son and I are separated, we would like to sit together. 
我儿子跟我的位子被分开了，我们想要坐在一起。

v. 分开；隔开（separate的过去式和过去分词）
The idea of being separated from him, even for a few hours, was torture.
想到与他分开，哪怕只是几个小时，也是一种折磨。

measure:英 ['meʒə] 
n. 测量；措施；程度；尺寸
That is a measure of how bad things have become at the bank.
那就是银行的局面已经糟糕到何种程度的衡量标准。

vt. 测量；估量；权衡
vi. 测量；估量
It measures 20 yards from side to side.
从这边到那边的距离为20码。

动词的 -ed 形式， 可以当做名词去使用
或者有名词的含义