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BBC星球系列《月亮之谜》（themoon），讲述一个关于人类与月亮的爱情故事，人类是如何从迷恋到倦极生厌，而为何重新爱上它的历程。节目带领观众回溯远古时期，人们用卡拉尼什立巨石阵表达对月亮的礼赞，它既是圣地亦是古代的观测站。同时游走世界各地观察各种自然现象，从中总结出月亮的变化规则及月亮对于地球活动的影响，并一一解答关于月亮的各种迷踪。
adj. 冷淡的，不好客的；荒凉的；不适居留的
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- So in 1994 a small unmanned orbiter Clementine
- 于是柯蕾曼堤号无人太空船
- was sent back to the moon,
- 在1994年再度前往月球
- the first spacecraft to make the journey in more than 20 years.
- 这是20多年来首度展开这趟旅程的太空载具
- And this mission would go somewhere new.
- 而这次的任务也不同于以往
- Technology had moved on since the 70s,
- 科技自70年代后有了长足进步
- and so Clementine would be able to reach an area
- 所以柯蕾曼堤号可以抵达
- of the moon that had never been seen in detail before.
- 月球从未被详仔观察过的区域
- The lunar poles.
- 那就是月球的两极地带
- Clementine spent 2 months bombarding
- 柯蕾曼堤号花了两个月
- the moon with radio waves,
- 对地球放送无线电波
- and in doing so,
- 因此
- it made a discovery that scientists had never dreamt of.
- 有了科学家做梦也想不到的重大发现
- They found what appeared to be patches of ice.
- 他们发现了像冰层的地方
- Its radar was getting signals being bounced back
- 太空船的雷达
- from the surface very strongly in a way
- 收到了强大的回传讯号
- that was consistent with their being patches of ice down there.
- 让人觉得下方应该是有冰层
- And er it's not a lot of ice- it could er, could fill er,
- 那些冰层并不大，融解的话
- could fill plenty of Olympic sized swimming pools,
- 可以装满很多座标准游泳池
- but if you were to melt it and spread,
- 但若将融化的水量
- spread it out over the lunar surface it
- 均匀分布在月球表面
- would be I don't know a millimetre thick or something.
- 水的深度大概只有一公厘左右
- But you're not going to produce oceans
- 所以这些冰层
- on the moon from this ice.
- 不可能形成海洋
- But enough there for humans to exploit.
- 但是让人类利用绰绰有余
- The existence of water on the moon even if it was frozen
- 月球上有冰层的事实
- changed everything.
- 改变了一切
- The bleak and barren landscape wasn't so inhospitable after all.
- 看来荒芜贫瘠的月球，毕竟没有那么不适合人类居住
- Suddenly the possibilities seemed endless.
- 突然间出现了无穷无尽的可能性
- With life-sustaining water,
- 有了能维持生命的水
- the moon could one day be a base in space,
- 月球未来很可能成为太空中的基地
- a stepping stone to the rest of the universe.
- 征服宇宙的踏脚石
- Humans might even live there one day.
- 有朝一日甚至可以让人类居住
- The love affair was back on.
- 熄灭的爱火重新燃起
- As if to drive home the renewed fascination,
- 仿佛为了进一步撮合人类与月球的情缘
- 45 years after President Kennedy's famous pledge
- 在甘迺迪总统承诺
- to take us to the moon,
- 要让人类征服月球的45年之后
- another US President launched a new mission.
- 另一位美国总统推动了一项新任务
- Returning to the moon is an important step
- 重返月球是我们太空计划中
- for our space programme.
- 很重要的一步
- Establishing and extending human presence
- 进驻月球
- on the moon could vastly reduce
- 可大幅降低
- the cost of further space exploration.
- 未来探索太空的成本
- Making possible very more ambitious missions.
- 让我们得以推动更具企图心的任务
- The moon is a logical step toward further progress and achievement.
- 追求未来的进步与成就，月球是顺理成章的下一步
- Human beings are headed into the cosmos.
- 人类即将征服宇宙
- It may have lacked some of his predecessor's rhetorical flourish,
- 布希总统的演讲也许少了甘迺迪总统的华丽辞藻
- but 35 years after the last man stepped off the moon,
- 但在最后一名太空人登陆月球的35年之后
- we are finally going back.
- 我们终于要回去了
- NASA has already started planning the new lunar mission.
- 航太总署已经开始规划新的登月任务
- And it's going to be big.
- 这次的规模将不同凡响
- We are planning to go to the moon in a particular,
- 我们打算以不同于
- different way than what we did with Apollo Apollo was short,
- 阿波罗计划的方式前往月球
- sortie missions,
- 阿波罗计划都是短期任务
- and we're planning to go to the moon to stay.
- 这次我们打算长期停留
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| inhospitable | [in'hɔspitəbl] | |||
| exploration | [.eksplɔ:'reiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| exploit | [iks'plɔit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| pledge | [pledʒ] | 联想记忆 | ||
| tone | [təun] | |||
| solve | [sɔlv] | |||
| fascination | [.fæsineiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| logical | ['lɔdʒikəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| barren | ['bærən] | |||
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] |
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