[qì xiàng tái]
observatory; meteorological observatory
China boasts the world's earliest observatory, built in Nanking in 1385 in the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.), three centuries ahead of the Greenwich Observatory built in Britain in 1670.
中国建有世界上最早的气象台。 公元1385年， 明朝在南京建立观象台， 比英国格林尼治观象台（建于1670年）早三个世纪。