Thus long spaces of time wore on—ages longer than the brain of man could grasp, since the beings of Yaddith die only after prolonged cycles. After many hundred revolutions the Carter-facet seemed to gain on the Zkauba-facet, and would spend vast periods calculating the distance of Yaddith in space and time from the human earth that was to be. The figures were staggering—【aeons of light-years beyond counting】—but the immemorial lore of Yaddith fitted Carter to grasp such things. He cultivated the power of dreaming himself momentarily earthward, and learned many things about our planet that he had never known before. But he could not dream the needed formula on the missing parchment. 如上，中译版“千万光年”的依据，然而“aeons of”只是虚数

In another moment the dream-sense vanished, and he felt rather as one just awaked from a dream. The ultimate abyss—the BEING—an entity of absurd, outlandish race called “Randolph Carter” 【on a world of the future not yet born】—some of these things were parts of the persistent, recurrent dreams of the wizard Zkauba on the planet Yaddith. They were too persistent—they interfered with his duties in weaving spells to keep the frightful bholes in their burrows, and became mixed up with his recollections of the myriad real worlds he had visited in his light-beam envelope. And now they had become quasi-real as never before. This heavy, material Silver Key in his right upper claw, exact image of one he had dreamt about, meant no good. He must rest and reflect, and consult the Tablets of Nhing for advice on what to do. Climbing a metal wall in a lane off the main concourse, he entered his apartment and approached the rack of tablets. 卡特意识转换至亚狄斯人视角的彼时，地球尚未诞生

“Gentlemen,” he continued, “I will not ask you to believe these things until I have shewn you special proof. 【Accept it, then, as a myth, when I tell you of the thousands of light-years—thousands of years of time, and uncounted billions of miles—that Randolph Carter hurtled through space as a nameless, alien entity in a thin envelope of electron-activated metal.】 He timed his period of suspended animation with utmost care, planning to have it end only a few years before the time of landing on the earth in or near 1928. 耗数千年以飞越数千光年——光速飞行——地球年龄数≈亚狄斯到地球之距的光年数+卡特在灭狄斯停留的时间——显然，地球诞生到20世纪不可能只有几千年

He will never forget that awakening. Remember, gentlemen, that before that aeon-long sleep he had lived consciously for 【thousands of terrestrial years amidst the alien and horrible wonders of Yaddith】. There was a hideous gnawing of cold, a cessation of menacing dreams, and a glance through the eye-plates of the envelope. Stars, clusters, nebulae, on every hand—and at last their outlines bore some kinship to the constellations of earth that he knew.卡特在亚狄斯呆了数千年

Primal myth and modern delusion joined in their assumption that mankind is only one—perhaps the least—of the highly evolved and dominant races of this planet’s long and largely unknown career. Things of inconceivable shape, they implied, had reared towers to the sky and delved into every secret of Nature before the first amphibian forbear of man had crawled out of the hot sea three hundred million years ago. Some had come down from the stars; a few were as old as the cosmos itself; others had arisen swiftly from terrene germs as far behind the first germs of our life-cycle as those germs are behind ourselves. 【Spans of thousands of millions of years】, and linkages with other galaxies and universes, were freely spoken of. Indeed, there was no such thing as time in its humanly accepted sense. 依《超越时间之影》（写作时间晚于《穿越银匙之门》），地球年龄数十亿——二十亿起步

综上，亚狄斯到地球数十亿光年

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