China unveils top 10 sci-tech news events of 2012
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BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, or the country's elite 1 think-tank duo, unveiled on Saturday top 10 news events of domestic science and technology progress for the year 2012.
Selected via a vote by academicians from both organizations, the 10 news events are as follows:
-- Three Chinese astronauts on June 24 successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module 2, the first such attempt in China's history of space exploration.
-- China's manned submersible, the Jiaolong, set a new national dive record after reaching more than 7,000 meters below sea level during its dive tests in the Pacific Ocean in June.
-- The world's first high-speed railway in areas with extremely low temperatures, the Harbin-Dalian rail, which runs through three provinces in northeast China, started operation on Dec. 1.
-- China on Feb. 6 published a set of full coverage 3 of moon map and moon images with a resolution of seven meters captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2.
-- The Chinese Sunway BlueLight supercomputer, which was built with domestically produced microprocessors 4 and is capable of performing around one-thousand-trillion calculations per second, on Sept. 11 passed the examination of the experts panel organized by the Ministry 5 of Science and Technology.
-- China on July 29 successfully conducted tests on its new 120-tonne-thrust liquid oxygen and kerosene 6 engine for its new generation carrier rocket, the Long March-5.
-- Research led by Chinese professor Jian-Wei Pan on the experimental demonstration 7 of topological error correction with an eight-photon cluster state marked a breakthrough in quantum information processing research. It was published by the Nature journal in February.
-- Chinese and foreign physicists 8 during the Daya Bay Reactor 9 Neutrino Experiment have confirmed and measured a third type of neutrino oscillation. That was announced on March 8.
-- The Ministry of Science and Technology announced on Jan. 11 that the country has approved a hepatitis E vaccine 10 developed by researchers from Xiamen University and Xiamen Innovax Biotech Co. Ltd. in east China's Fujian Province.
-- China on Oct. 28 unveiled Asia's biggest radio telescope in Shanghai, which is used to track and collect data from satellites and space probes.
n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的
- The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
- We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
n.组件，模块，模件；(航天器的)舱
- The centre module displays traffic guidance information.中央模块显示交通引导信息。
- Two large tanks in the service module held liquid oxygen.服务舱的两个大气瓶中装有液态氧。
n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
微（信息）处理机( microprocessor的名词复数 )
- This sort of work would have been inconceivable before the advent of microprocessors. 在微处理机问世之前这种工作是难以想象的。
- In microprocessors, the name used for the IEEE interface bus standard. 微处理机中，IEEE接口总线标准的名字。
n.(政府的)部；牧师
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.(kerosine)煤油，火油
- It is like putting out a fire with kerosene.这就像用煤油灭火。
- Instead of electricity,there were kerosene lanterns.没有电，有煤油灯。
n.表明，示范，论证，示威
- His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
- He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
物理学家( physicist的名词复数 )
- For many particle physicists, however, it was a year of frustration. 对于许多粒子物理学家来说，这是受挫折的一年。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技
- Physicists seek rules or patterns to provide a framework. 物理学家寻求用法则或图式来构成一个框架。
n.反应器；反应堆
- The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
- Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。
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