VOA标准英语2011--Artist Inspired by Final Space Shuttle L
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(七月)
Artist Inspired by Final Space Shuttle Launch
Standing 1 on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, facing the launch pad as a space shuttle lifts off, is an experience that defies words. Friday's historic launch of Atlantis marks the beginning of the end for NASA's space shuttle fleet.
It is an almost impossible experience to describe. Upon liftoff, there is a bright blaze from the engines, a flaming trail that cuts the sky vertically 2, the cloud plume 3 that begins in silence, going up, and then the thunder that mounts and rolls into a noise that seems to make both the sky and your stomach shudder 4.
Stephen Bach, a landscape painter from Orlando, Florida, watched the launch from the Kennedy Space Center, two paintings in progress on an easel before him, both of the shuttle. He gazed directly across the water at Atlantis on the launch pad, and then, Atlantis in flight.
"It's just a really amazing sight, and I don't think you can describe it until you see it, you know," said Bach. "I've seen it 30 times, I'm sure, through the years from Orlando or from some place off the Cape 5. But this is just another level."
But Bach is a painter, a man well versed 6 in images and details, and he describes the seconds after Atlantis disappeared above the clouds.
"The plume is amazing, and it's cast a shadow across the bottom of the cloud layer which is just astounding," Bach added. "It's almost as impressive as the launch, but in a different way. You can see the yellow coming through the inside of the plume. It's just a very remarkable 7 sight. It's nothing like you picture it when you watch it on TV. It's just tenfold better, you know. Amazing."
As Bach still gazed at the plume, barely able to look away, his painting of Atlantis taking flight garnered 8 another shuttle watcher's attention. The landscape painter who turned his talents to the sky had an offer to buy, before the plume had even vanished.
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- Line the pages for the graph both horizontally and vertically.在这几页上同时画上横线和竖线，以便制作图表。
- The human brain is divided vertically down the middle into two hemispheres.人脑从中央垂直地分为两半球。
- Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
- He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。
- The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.看到那副棺材，他浑身一阵战栗。
- We all shudder at the thought of the dreadful dirty place.我们一想到那可怕的肮脏地方就浑身战惊。
- I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
- She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
- He is well versed in history.他精通历史。
- He versed himself in European literature. 他精通欧洲文学。
- She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
- These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。