时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

[00:00.00]科技:度海量天


[00:11.21]Fly to the Moon—NASA’s 2018 Project


[00:17.67]It will cost $104 billion over the next decade


[00:24.01]to send astronauts back to the moon,


[00:26.52]NASA’s chief said,


[00:28.17]defending the price tag as an investment the nation


[00:31.65]can afford despite the expense of Hurricane Katrina.


[00:35.26]The new moon exploration plan unveiled


[00:39.08]by the space agency will use beefed-up shuttle and Apollo parts


[00:43.75]and aims to put people on the moon by 2018.


[00:47.57]“There will be a lot more hurricanes


[00:50.44]and a lot more other natural disasters


[00:53.15]to befall the United States and the world in that time,


[00:56.13]I hope none worse than Katrina,”


[00:58.96]NASA Administrator 1 Michael Griffin said at a news conference.


[01:02.67]“But the space program is a long-term investment in our future.


[01:07.06]We must deal with our short-term problems


[01:10.23]while not sacrificing our long-term investments in our future.


[01:14.27]When we have a hurricane,


[01:16.14]we don’t cancel the Air Force.


[01:18.32]We don’t cancel the Navy.


[01:19.96]And we’re not going to cancel NASA.”


[01:22.68]The $104 billion price tag,


[01:25.98]leading up to an initial four-person lunar landing


[01:29.58]and spread over 13 years,


[01:31.78]represents 55 percent of what the Apollo program


[01:36.04]would cost in today’s dollars, Griffin said.


[01:38.65]Apollo development spanned eight years,


[01:41.62]from 1961 to the first manned moon landing in 1969.


[01:47.09]The new space vehicle design uses shuttle rocket parts,


[01:51.90]an Apollo-style capsule and a lander


[01:54.62]capable of carrying four people to the moon.


[01:57.38]The rockets—there would be two,


[02:00.09]a small version for people and a heftier one for cargo 2


[02:04.03]would eclipse the 18-story space shuttle.


[02:07.66]The larger one, in fact,


[02:09.08]would come close to the 36-story Saturn 3 5 moon rocket.


[02:13.46]They would be built from shuttle booster rockets,


[02:16.72]fuel tanks and main engines,


[02:19.45]as well as moon rocket engines.


[02:20.99]The so-called crew exploration vehicle perched on top


[02:25.25]would look very much like an Apollo capsule, albeit 4 larger.


[02:29.65]The crew exploration vehicle would replace the space shuttle,


[02:34.13]due to be retired 5 in 2010,


[02:36.74]but not before 2012 and possibly as late as 2014


[02:42.65]depending on the money available, Griffin said.


[02:45.92]It could carry as many as six astronauts back and forth 6 to the international space station.


[02:51.94]If all goes well,


[02:53.70]the first crew would set off for the moon by 2018—or 2020 at the latest,


[03:00.90]the year targeted by President Bush who proposed such an initiative.


[03:05.60]The same type of vessel 7 could be used,


[03:08.90]one day, to transport astronauts to Mars.


[03:11.73]The new exploration plan would allow four astronauts to stay on the moon for a week—


[03:17.86]twice as long as Apollo missions.


[03:20.39]It also would haul considerably 8 more cargo,


[03:23.34]much of which would be left on the moon for future crews.


[03:26.61]In time, lunar stays of up to six months would be possible.



n.经营管理者,行政官员
  • The role of administrator absorbed much of Ben's energy.行政职务耗掉本很多精力。
  • He has proved himself capable as administrator.他表现出管理才能。
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
  • The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
  • A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
n.农神,土星
  • 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。
  • These comparisons suggested that Saturn is made of lighter materials.这些比较告诉我们,土星由较轻的物质构成。
conj.即使;纵使;虽然
  • Albeit fictional,she seemed to have resolved the problem.虽然是虚构的,但是在她看来好象是解决了问题。
  • Albeit he has failed twice,he is not discouraged.虽然失败了两次,但他并没有气馁。
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
  • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
  • You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
adv.极大地;相当大地;在很大程度上
  • The economic situation has changed considerably.经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
  • The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。
学英语单词
acclivi-tous
Acer platanoides
additional paragraph in auditor's report
air-brake dynamometer
Ammate
anchorable
Andreyevskiy
apertura
ashtanga
astatic
auriculo-ventricular
bequeathest
bicornuta
biotransfer
Blenheim Orange
calculus of lower urinary tract
callionymus variegatus
charge-sheet
chernyy otrog
collcynth
comma movable
community-gardening
contagious polyarthritis
corocalene
counter clockwise (ccw)
counterefforts
crowflower
de-esterification
deficit covering bonds
desalin(iz)ation
dichlorbenil
ecureuils
entero-chromaffin cell
explosive pressure
financial environment
fluxgate magnetometer
Fogg Art Museum
fulguration current
Gastrocybe lateritia
generator field control
get the memo
gibelike
graphics adapter
grating of gears
gunnery practice
hematopoietic system
high-voltage switch
hylozoism
hypersonic glider
ideal imperfect-crystal
ill-natured
illegal condemnation
intergroup behavior
klier
koe-san (goesan)
komun-som (huk-to )
lathe tool bit
lending agreement
like kings
lindahl taxes
main longitudinal frame
microflake tobacco sbeet
micropegmatitic structure
ministry for industry and trade
minor orders
momchaunce
National city Bank of New York
neutron activity
normalization routine
oceanic affinity
oxyphosphate of copper cement
palm-presser
parameter plane method
pasteurized lactic beverage
peneite
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
photoactivity detector
playdoh
plug for seal
printergram
refuse incinerator
repairable material
rhizocephalous
rusticalness
science teachers
seeabler
seeing about
ship technology
siccitate
Sisymbrium officinale
snakeskin glaze
spreader-ditcher
stand point
standing-wave method
stroke ... down
stuffing gland
truncheoning
trustor
ursaenate
VREPAIR
wanderstars