时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(六月)


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New Yorkers Welcome Enterprise Space Shuttle



Under blue skies, a barge 1 bearing the space shuttle prototype Enterprise powered up the Hudson River Wednesday morning, past the New York skyline -- arriving midday at the Intrepid 2 Sea, Air & Space Museum.


Visitors crowded the area around the museum to get a close look at the Enterprise, which never flew in space but was used in landing tests in the 1970s.


“I just remember from my childhood, the shuttles taking off and, now that this is kind of the final resting ground for this one, I’m just very excited to see one up close and personal and to watch the process of loading it onto the Intrepid,” said Nancy de Camp..


“I think it’s an amazing thing that New Yorkers now are going to have this as a piece of history,” said Joe Danziger.


“I think it’s cool that we have the technology to go to space and what we might find out,” said Alejandra Terrero.


“It’s a very really remarkable 3 piece of engineering, the space shuttle, so I really wanted to see that up close,” said Ziad Amin.


“I actually thought it might have been bigger, but I was impressed by the wings on it and just how they built it, and it was really shiny,” said Christopher Lang.


In a delicate operation, a floating crane hoisted 4 the massive spacecraft aloft from the barge and swung it over to land it on the deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid. That will be its home in retirement 5 -- a lasting 6 memory of the U.S.’s space shuttle program, now ended. The exhibit will open to museum visitors in mid-July. 




n.平底载货船,驳船
  • The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
  • Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
adj.无畏的,刚毅的
  • He is not really satisfied with his intrepid action.他没有真正满意他的无畏行动。
  • John's intrepid personality made him a good choice for team leader.约翰勇敢的个性适合作领导工作。
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
  • 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。
把…吊起,升起( hoist的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He hoisted himself onto a high stool. 他抬身坐上了一张高凳子。
  • The sailors hoisted the cargo onto the deck. 水手们把货物吊到甲板上。
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
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acid annealing
aleurone cells of endosperm
anoxic pore water
antenna long-wire
Arleux
augmental off-gas system
authorized data list
brought to the table
buffer plate
buried drain
calonectris leucomelas
canister-shot
capacity resistence time constant
chronosequence
coal cassification
coherent processing system parameter
coloured vase
composite depreciation method
constaff
constant current potentiometry
convenien
coroner's court
crushing force
deposition of radioactive dust
dinicotinoylornithine
EFR
Environmental Study Conference
fan-brake
free-thinning
gamma ray dosimeter
H. & S.
haloform
hanged around
haptically
Hartley, Marsden
headiness
hearthwares
hinchcliff
hogling
immunity resistant
insect bar
interspousal
ipsm
Julian Alps
Kven
lead totanate ceramics
Macewen's operation
mental arithmetic
misspender
muldaur
multienzyme complex
narchinol
national defence economics
national-savings
neighborhood parks
neosurrealists
newton's friction law
North Plains
obad
operation elements
optimal rate of mark up
Oterben
output of systems analysis and design
Pediapred
peer acceptance
pestalotia aucubae hara
potassium carbonate peroxyhydrate
preoptive control
product-mixes
promurit
puristical
pyridoxine hydrochloride
residual-ore deposit
resoundable
revives
room mining
San Salvador
Savona
Sechuana
sederunt
shed the blood of someone
single sweep
soil stratigraphy
soil test
SSI (secondary side inspection)
substrate orientation
sweettalks
take breath away
thyroidism
ticker-tape
toogh
town-hall
trachelomonas pseudobulla
trouble-free
two-byte conversion
vacuum bypass
valley shape factor
vertical slit arc-chute
wagon wheel grain
water-tight regulations
woolner
Yucatan Current