时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(五)月


英语课

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.


If you’ve ever wanted to explore the universe, your dream is now as close as your keyboard. Because last week, Microsoft unveiled its online WorldWide Telescope. The program was developed in partnership 1 with NASA and research institutions such as the California Institute of Technology. The WorldWide Telescope uses the best high-resolution imagery that’s been generated both here on earth and in space. The images are joined together to put celestial 2 objects in the correct perspective and in their actual positions in the sky. From your computer, you can peer through telescopes such as the Hubble or the Chandra X-Ray Observatory 3. You can roam on your own through the galaxies 4, get up close and personal with the planets, or take tours guided by astronomers 5 and professors. You can choose to look through different wavelengths 6 of light to reveal hidden structures. And you can explore the heavens not only as they are today, but as they were in the past or will be in the future. The late Jim Gray, a Microsoft computer scientist, conceived of this effort as a way to make the universe accessible to everyone. The free program can be downloaded at worldwidetelescope.org.


Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.



n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
adj.天体的;天上的
  • The rosy light yet beamed like a celestial dawn.玫瑰色的红光依然象天上的朝霞一样绚丽。
  • Gravity governs the motions of celestial bodies.万有引力控制着天体的运动。
n.天文台,气象台,瞭望台,观测台
  • Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
  • Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。
星系( galaxy的名词复数 ); 银河系; 一群(杰出或著名的人物)
  • Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
  • We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.波长( wavelength的名词复数 );具有相同的/不同的思路;合拍;不合拍
  • I find him difficult to talk to—we're on completely different wavelengths. 我没法和他谈话,因为我们俩完全不对路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation. 阳光由几种不同波长的射线组成。 来自辞典例句
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altruisms
arcanist
babaline group
Ballymahon
batracotoxin
beefsteak tomato
benzylphenol
Bok, Edward William
bow rake angle
busted it
cash tender offer
cauliflower ears
cement tile pavement
chopped down
climatic regime
clip out of
condensate meter
constant current transformator
cornucoquimba equiseta
Day of the Jackal, The
decoder memory
disanoints
doup mounting
Elatostema rupestre
electronic air cleaner
ellipticities
environmental anormaly
eo ipso
Essequibo Is.
euploidy
exercise control
fanziner
FBSM
fetal phagia
get one's bearings
Gornyy Rayon
grouped controls
high trajectory
hybrid navigation
hyostylic suspension
independent country
july 4s
lacemaking
Lebedevka
mechanical unit
minimum variance method
mmrc
morphosemantic
muzzle bell
neurodermatits
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nonspherical nucleus
oscillating
outbound point
photoelectric seeker
place of open flame
PlGF
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pozer
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prime factor
pseudfouridine
purchase letter
quadriceps femoriss
radiobromine
reason maintenance system
record changer
relaminarizes
revolution stop
revolve
ribut
s.p.c.c., SPCC
septum (pl.septa)
sodium to-sodium exchanger
spadefish
straying
sub-anthraxylon
sublemmata
surface temperatrue
symphylas
tandem configuration
temporary irrigation
teshe
The Fixed Limits Per Ton
three-dimensional analysis
Total Allowable Catch System
trapezoidal scheme
trapped plasma avalanche triggered transit time diode
tsaritsas
two-petalled
unmortised
variable length record file
voice parts
wagon gear
wait-list
waterproof mortar
Zelënyy Bor
zygocactus truncactus