了解今日课堂：

1、Henry老师好：请问：What’s new? What else is new? What’s up? What’s going on? 在口语里有什么用法区别吗？谢谢老师！

2、Henry老师好，我在最近在反复刷摩登家庭，其中第八季第五集这个地方Michael读的太快，不太清楚怎么连续的，求教Henry老师，谢谢。“It's Cam's, and he loves it. He's never more than two glasses of wine away from treating us all to an impromptu concert.”另外，还有第七季第一季下面这句话什么意思呢?We are sold. You want Joe?He’s yours. 谢谢老师！

【听力文段】mp3

Has there ever been a time when you felt fear, real fear or maybe just being unprepared?

A couple of years ago, I had the, I'll say opportunity. But I had the situation where I was voluntold to take an assistant directorship job. And it was something I was very reluctant to do. I didn't feel prepared for it. I didn't feel like I had the right skill set. And I didn't feel like I was going to be good at it. And none of those are good feelings. There's a part in your book, Pat, where you say: I realized at some point that being ready could mean being ready to learn quickly while doing. And, you know, that expression, that's exactly what it means to be an astronaut. I know how to do that. I can learn on the job. I can learn quickly. And so I did dive into this job. And I did learn quickly while on the job. I can't say that I was the best person ever to hold that job. But it was important to me to do my very best and to be part of this new team. Women are particularly prone to this where we think: Oh, I haven't had training for that. I haven't had a job like that before. I can't do it. But you can do it. You take all of the skills that you've developed and all of the other things that you're doing. And you use those to support you while you're learning quickly while doing.

Such good advice, Megan, I won't be learning by doing flying into space. But taking that knowledge that we can learn by doing and we can be prepared, so important. How would you describe the changes in you personally from being off this Earth?

But in the very beginning, when I first launched into space, you're very busy, you know, on this spaceship that's just gone through a launch sequence. And you have to turn your spaceship into an orbiting platform. And so you're very busy. So we have these books. And we're heads down in the books. And we're going through all the steps and moving switches and loading computer programs. And I only had a brief moment of time to kind of look out the window and say, yep! That's where the Earth is. That's exactly where it should be. And that's how it's looked in all of the pictures I've seen growing up. And I got right back to work. And so it wasn't until I had more of an opportunity to gaze out the window for a while, while I was operating the robotic arm that I could really observe the Earth.

I remember so clearly the first time I saw a lightning storm across a huge expanse of the ocean and the lightning, it appeared in different colors. And it lights up the inside of the clouds. And it makes this kind of, you know, dramatic pattern. It was like having your own laser light show laid out below you. And the realization struck me that this is not static. This is not a photo. This is our Earth. It's a real living system. It's hard to describe how impossibly thin it looks to you, with the vast blackness of space on one side and our beautiful Earth on the other side. And this just incredibly thin layer of atmosphere that's all that's keeping us and all of us alive and every life form on Earth. That's all that's keeping us alive.

And it's a very visceral reaction, this very strong urge to want to protect the Spaceship Earth that we're all you know, you and I are both crew members here. And, you know, we've all got to work together to take care of this ship that we're moving on through the universe. So it was a very powerful response to seeing that.

Thank you for your work, Megan. And what do you say, Safe flight? Is there...?

We say Godspeed or we say ad astra, to the stars.

Ad astra, to the stars, Godspeed, Megan McArthur. Thank you.

Ad astra，

Thank you, Pat. Thank you so much.

【单词短语】

1. voluntold

2. reluctant

3. skill set

4. prone to

5. gaze

6. struck

7. static

8. visceral

9. godspeed

10. ad astra

【地道美语，长句精练】

1. It was something I was reluctant to do.

2. Women are particularly prone to this.

3. We're heads down in the books

【课堂纠音，上节连读】

1. I'd like to point out that Megan is first and foremost an astronaut

2. We break down every system into bite-sized pieces

3. It's to build you up.