SSS 2008-02-27
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(二)月
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute?
Earlier this month, NASA announced that an MIT Physics professor will lead a team of scientists on a new mission. The objective: build a giant radio telescope on the far side of the moon. You see, long long ago, before there even was a galaxy 1 far far away, the universe settled into a cosmic Dark Age. It was a billion year period following the Big Bang and it produced the structure of space as we know it. Astronomers 2 have long hoped to detect the faint low-frequency radio emissions 3 generated from this time so they could learn more. But thanks to the interference from the ionosphere, not to mention tons of radio and TV signals, earth is a lousy place to hear. Luckily the moon rotates so that one side always faces out into space, making it free and clear of noise pollution. The MIT team will use automated 4 vehicles to arrange hundreds of antennas 5 across 2 square kilometers of the moon’s quiet side. From this perch 6, they hope to hear the waves produced from the birth of the universe and get in tune 7 with how it all came to be.
Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I am Adam Hinterthuer.
- The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
- The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
- Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
- Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
- The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
- Automated Highway System (AHS) is recently regarded as one subsystem of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). 近年来自动公路系统(Automated Highway System,AHS)，作为智能运输系统的子系统之一越来越受到重视。
- Marconi tied several antennas to kites. 马可尼在风筝上系了几根天线。 来自超越目标英语 第3册
- Radio astronomy today is armed with the largest antennas in the world. 射电天文学拥有世界上最大的天线。