英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-11
时间：2019-02-05 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2012年
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You are there, on the most exciting, nerve-shattering journey in the history of man!
Fifty years ago, it was easy for us to imagine Venus, closer to the Sun and wrapped in clouds, to be our scorched 1, tropical sister, swarming 2 with life.
There was this picture of Venus as a kind of primitive 3 steamy Earth, complete with giant tree ferns and dinosaurs 4.
Altogether, it seemed to us that it should be, just possibly, even populated.
In the late 1950s, the space race begins. While America aims for the Moon, Russia sets its sights on meeting the neighbors.
Venus and Mars still was in the human dreams to meet, the species which could be very similar to us. Venus was even easier than Mars to reach.
But landing on Venus proves surprisingly difficult. One by one, the Soviet 5 Venera probes disappear within the thick Venusian atmosphere, their last transmissions warning of a world of inconceivably high temperatures and pressure.
Persistence 6 and tough Russian engineering eventually pay off.
In 1975, the camera on the redesigned Venera 9 finally penetrates 7 the Venusian veil. But what it sees is nothing like the tropical paradise imagined.
烧焦，烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（植物）枯萎，把…晒枯； 高速行驶； 枯焦
- I scorched my dress when I was ironing it. 我把自己的连衣裙熨焦了。
- The hot iron scorched the tablecloth. 热熨斗把桌布烫焦了。
密集( swarm的现在分词 )； 云集； 成群地移动； 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去
- The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。
- The beach is swarming with bathers. 海滩满是海水浴的人。
adj.原始的；简单的；n.原(始)人，原始事物
- It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
- His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西
- The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
n.坚持，持续，存留
- The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.他女儿持续的咳嗽把他难住了。
- He achieved success through dogged persistence.他靠着坚持不懈取得了成功。
v.穿过( penetrate的第三人称单数 )；刺入；了解；渗透
- This is a telescope that penetrates to the remote parts of the universe. 这是一架能看到宇宙中遥远地方的望远镜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The dust is so fine that it easily penetrates all the buildings. 尘土极细，能极轻易地钻入一切建筑物。 来自辞典例句