There were trips to Shonhi and Mthura and Kath, and other worlds in the 【twenty-eight galaxies】 accessible to the light-beam envelopes of the creatures of Yaddith, and trips back and forth through aeons of time with the aid of the Silver Key and various other symbols known to Yaddith’s wizards.

我是没想到你会整理这个。

The figures were staggering—【aeons of light-years】 beyond counting—but the immemorial lore of Yaddith fitted Carter to grasp such things.

He thought that his calculations would let him perform a voyage with a light-wave envelope such as 【no being of Yaddith had ever performed】—a bodily voyage through nameless 【aeons】 and across incredible 【galactic】 reaches to the solar system and the earth itself.

Likewise was he aware of how he must achieve suspended animation, in the manner of an adept, to endure the 【aeon-long】 flight through fathomless abysses.

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.

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He knew that when he had brought the planet-angle to the right aeon (a thing impossible to do while hurtling through space), Yaddith would be a dead world dominated by triumphant bholes, and that his escape in the light-wave envelope would be a matter of grave doubt.

第2楼（内容被吞，见第8楼）：亚狄斯星居民能够去往28个星系（galaxy，下同）的不同世界。
第4楼：“数千万光年”句的原文，两颗星球间距为“aeons of”光年，“aeon”既可以指极其漫长的时间，也可确指作十亿年，在天文学、地质学中使用。
第5楼：两颗星球位于不同星系，二者距离长到亚狄斯星上的生灵未曾经历，整趟行程需要“aeons”的时间。1923年哈勃观测到M31的造父变星，1924年推算其距地球约90万光年。
第6楼：旅行时间被描述为“aeon-long”
第7楼：“数千光年”句的原文
第9楼：旅行方式为用光束包裹容器穿行，速度应为光速
（图为OED第一版对“aeon”一词的解释）

@破灭 @彩祸 请问两位怎么看呢？

或许和这个比较类似？
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有女子本来是个小小的奴婢，却被大人物看中，施展心机手段，成为了皇帝妃子，又进行宫斗，居然掌握朝廷大权，执政百年之久。 【更有许多亿万无穷】，如恒沙数目的“主角”经历，纷纷汇聚而来。 古尘沙缔造了无数奇遇，千年之间，所获得的则是这些奇遇获得者的经历。