时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2015年


英语课

With such a short window to capture data, the team must test and retest the instruments throughout new horizons' nine-year journey.Every year for about two months we are going to wait the spacecraft up and do some testing, some observations of celestial 1 objects and some commissioning testing of all the instruments to check them out, to make sure they are still performing and will be ready to go when we finally get to Pluto 2 in July 2015.


Ready to answer some of science's most fundamental questions.


The delivery of organic material and water from the outer solar system to the inner solar system may have played a pivotal role in the formation of life on the earth.


It's just one of many questions about the solar system and its formation that scientists hope that new horizons will help answer, but above all when new horizons arrives, astronomers 3 are expecting the unexpected.


I think the most exciting things we are going to learn from new horizons are all those things that never even occurred to us to ask, and suddenly you go there and you realise we didn't know anything.


One thing is certain, the arrival of new horizons will be the astronomical 4 event of the 21st century.


It's a whole new kind of world, it's a planet i think everyone is trying to imagine, it's a frontier world, it's going to be the cover of the Rolling Stone.


And perhaps most fittingly the spacecraft carries the ashes of the man who started the journey to Pluto almost 80 years ago, Klair T, this is a journey to one of the solar system's most puzzling, most mystifying worlds, once the ninth planet, now a dwarf 5 planet, an isolated 6 oddity that became one of many.


 

1 celestial
adj.天体的;天上的
  • The rosy light yet beamed like a celestial dawn.玫瑰色的红光依然象天上的朝霞一样绚丽。
  • Gravity governs the motions of celestial bodies.万有引力控制着天体的运动。
2 Pluto
n.冥王星
  • Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun.冥王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Pluto has an elliptic orbit.冥王星的轨道是椭圆形的。
3 astronomers
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • 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》
4 astronomical
adj.天文学的,(数字)极大的
  • He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.他是研究中国古代天文学文献的专家。
  • Houses in the village are selling for astronomical prices.乡村的房价正在飙升。
5 dwarf
n.矮子,侏儒,矮小的动植物;vt.使…矮小
  • The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
  • The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀,摇摇头。
6 isolated
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
学英语单词
-tossed
adamantine adenoma
advection-diffusion equation
Allan variance
Ban Khang Kha
belt filled
bibliobibuli
blue pig
borehole logging
buona sera
burserine
c.smith
can moocher
challie
control rod latch tool
cross-section of air gap
crude oil unit
cyclopentadecane
cystectomies
dc-dc power conversion
deep bracket
degree of American Petroleum Institute
depth gauge
diminished cardiac reserve
diploteratography
discorrespondent
displacive inversion
Dred Scott
duck-board
dyeable
echo stop
ecim
effective size
fences off
field magnetomotive force
finite verbs
fire syndrome
folk tales
gartering
gin pole derrick
glass constituent
graminology
Herocaine
high-current supply
indian-pacific
Jenafer
Karanjia
lantern lens
liability between partners
lleyn pen.
long-tailed weasel
long-term forecast
miedel
mwah-mwah
non-dutible goods
nucleus lacrimalis
nucleus of continent
occlusion line
optimum-currency area
originating motiion
over-reliant
overload limiter
oxygroup
petalled
petrocaribe
petrochina
Petruschky's spinalgia
Philip The Evangelist, Saint
photoelectric color analyzer
pimozides
quasivacuum
rarefied gasdynamics
reassign
repo men
ribbon powder
right left turning of the arm
route server
sclera pigment
Sedum major
semipros
sitotropism
space communications
spatial symmetry
Stenopodidea
subfamily papilionoideaes
survivor benefit
tata-box
tightrope walkings
timed net systems
tinpot dictator
to steam
trades unionist
transmission case
transmission of sound
trial trip rating
unacceptance
underbeit
Uudenmaan Lääni
visitment
woodmasters
Yakeishi-dake