时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(八)月


英语课

The space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-128, is in orbit right now. With some fascinating people on board. Pilot Kevin Ford 1 became interested in flying when he was a kid and read the book Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins, command module 2 pilot on Apollo 11. When he was old enough to take flying lessons, Ford paid for them with money he earned bagging groceries.


Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez was born in California, into a family of migrant farm workers. He spent his childhood shuttling between Mexico and California, working in the fields and speaking little English. But during the school year, his parents, who possessed 3 only third-grade educations, had him and his siblings 4 attend school full time and help with the work only on weekends. His second-grade teacher in California convinced his parents to set down roots for the sake of the children’s educations. In high school, Hernandez was inspired by astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, and set his course on becoming an astronaut himself



1 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
2 module
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。
3 possessed
adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的
  • He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
  • He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。
4 siblings
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
标签: SSS Hernande
学英语单词
'Alīābād-e Mollā Alī
adenocystic
baccouche
baicalin
bail in error
barshaw
blazingly
bollee
box-method
bridge-breakagefusion-bridge cycle(mcclitock 1951)
calibration frequency
car cleaner
car shake
carrier telegraph system
children's embedded figures test
clear length
climatic instability
coillard
collision threat assessment system
corycidine
cost of common services
cylindromyia orientalis
day - care centre
deficiency of phosphofructokinase
dies laughing
each-way
elementary composition
excitation-system stability
faithers
feeder drop
fence wall
fimashing
fixed-point motion
fluvioglacial terraces
foreign body in urinary system
gaff trysail
gas cavity
go fifty-fifty
gold import
goodwit
granite tag
greenkin
hand temple
hangworthy
hydrazidines
Ianhedgea
inpayre
line header section
literal term
London International Freight Terminal
loss of information
mackless
Mahoonagh
managing expenses
mega-yacht
menyuer
Meonstoke
Metasequoia glyptostrodoides
mode control bit
monkey boy
motor coupling
multiple answer
Māndāri
Non cul.
noncash item
nonoxygenous
normal standardized score
ognianova
pinnas
planted
product price index
proviridomycin
Qartaba
radial beam tube
reconfiguration waveform
remelted alloy
replacement assets
rolling-table saw
royalp
Sarāj Khel
sigmoid progradational pattern
skeuomorphic
social-messaging
spot size
street-level bureaucrat
stretch flanging
subduced
technical reason
threshed out
trans-alpine
transverse hermaphrodism
true sun
Ucalegon
underseeing
veneered chipboard
verbalness
water pollution detection system
weathered mantle
Wilson Act
workable reserve
yarny
Yogachara