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  • One engineer installed a GoPro camera on his rocket; he showed Ormerod pictures it had captured high in the sky.
  • 一位工程师在火箭上安装了GoPro相机,并向摄影师奥默罗德展示了它在高空拍摄的照片。
  • Others get creative -- one rocket is shaped like a bottle of Jagermeister.
  • 另一些人也推出自己的创意,比如形状像野格酒瓶的火箭。
  • From the control center comes a countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
  • 从控制中心传来倒计时的声音:5,4,3,2,1。
  • The rockets blast off, then gently float back to Earth under parachutes -- if they don't malfunction.
  • 火箭发射后,如果没有发生故障,就会在降落伞的帮助下轻轻飘回地面。
  • Ormerod was into astronauts and science fiction as a kid but never imagined being able to travel beyond Earth.
  • 奥默罗德小时候很喜欢宇航员和科幻小说,但从没想过自己能飞出地球。
  • "When only a tiny percentage of people can go to space, what does everyone else who dreams of it do?" he wondered.
  • 他想知道:“当只有很小一部分人可以进入太空时,其他所有梦想进入太空的人又会做什么?”
  • Then, at a rocket launch in his native Scotland, he found the answer: They live their interstellar dreams on the ground.
  • 然后,在家乡苏格兰的一次火箭发射中,奥默罗德找到了答案:他们在地面上实现了他们的星际梦想。
  • Soon he was following scientists to a Mars simulation in Utah and aurora hunters to the otherworldly coast of Iceland.
  • 不久后,奥默罗德跟随科学家前往犹他州进行火星模拟实验,并跟随奥罗拉猎人前往超凡脱俗的冰岛海岸。
  • Next he'll visit crop circle enthusiasts in Russia and astronomers in South Africa.
  • 接下来,他将访问俄罗斯麦田怪圈爱好者和南非天文学家。
  • "They're ordinary people," Ormerod says, "but they're blasting into outer space."
  • 奥默罗德说:“他们都是普通人,但他们正冲向外太空。”


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1.blast off 发射升空
Columbia is set to blast off at 1:20 a.m. Eastern Time tomorrow.
哥伦比亚号定于东部时间明晨1:20发射升空。

2.a tiny percentage of 一小部分
The cuts add up to only a tiny percentage of the $3.5 trillion budget approved by Congress last month.
削减的这些经费只占国会上个月通过的3万5000亿美元预算的很小一部分。

3.blast into 冲入
Like fighter pilots, our astronauts would be able to blast into space at the drop of a hat.
就像战斗机飞行员一样,我们的宇航员可以轻而易举的冲入太空。

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n. 虚构,杜撰,小说

联想记忆
control [kən'trəul]

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n. 克制,控制,管制,操作装置
vt. 控制

 
creative [kri'eitiv]

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adj. 创造性的

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simulation [.simju'leiʃən]

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n. 模拟,仿真,赝品

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budget ['bʌdʒit]

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n. 预算
vt. 编预算,为 ... 做预算

 
circle ['sə:kl]

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n. 圈子,圆周,循环
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