夏说英语新闻晨读 第394期:超铁速度新纪录
时间：2019-02-20 作者：英语课 分类：夏说英语新闻晨读
本期内容：
A competition helping 1 to drive development of the futuristic hyperloop transport system has been won by engineering students from Munich.
The hyperloop idea involves passengers in pods travelling at very high speeds down sealed tunnels.
The team's pod hit 457km/h on a 1.2km test track.
Run by the SpaceX aerospace 2 company, the competition aims to refine the technologies that could underpin 3 the super-fast transport system.
drive development (of): 推动 (……的) 发展
futuristic: 未来的；新潮的
hyperloop: n. 超铁
hyperinflation: n. 恶性通货膨胀
hypersensitive: adj. 超级敏感的
hypercritical: adj. 吹毛求疵的；苛评的
Munich: 慕尼黑
involvecontain)
pod: n. 吊舱；豆荚
seal: vt. 密封；盖章
tunnel: n. 隧道
hit: vt. 达到；到达
track: n. 轨道
aerospace: n. 航空航天工业
refine: vt. 提升；改进 (improve)
underpinstrengthen)
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.全世界的航空航天工业都感受到了经济衰退的寒意。
- Edward Murphy was an aerospace engineer for the US Army.爱德华·墨菲是一名美军的航宇工程师。