时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


英语课
This is For the Record.
(SOUNDBITES FROM MOVIES)
WILLIAM SHATNER: Space.
TOM HANKS: Houston, we have a problem.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Astronaut is awestruck.
SANDRA BULLOCK: What do I do?
SHATNER: The final frontier.
MATT DAMON: I'm going to have to science the [expletive] out of this.
MARTIN: Most of our ideas about space come from movies - or maybe your third grade trip to the planetarium 1. Today, you can log on to NASA's website and watch live feeds from the International Space Station, a real-life space adventure.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
SCOTT KELLY: Let me just get my bearings 3 here. I'm looking at the moon out there.
MARTIN: At this very moment, astronaut Scott Kelly is on month eight of his year-long stay on the space station. This past Friday, he and Kjell Lindgren made their second spacewalk. What's important to remember here, they were outside the space station when they did this, tied only with a tether, floating in outer space.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
KELLY: I can go do it. I'd prefer to do it if you guys are OK with it.
MARTIN: Their assignment was to configure a vent 2 door on the port-side ammonia tank.
TRACY CALDWELL DYSON: OK Scott, we're going to take your lead. We're happy to have you go and do that.
MARTIN: Today, we hear from three astronauts about this very particular space experience. For the Record: Walking in Space.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
KELLY: How does that look there, Tracy? Do you see that?
CALDWELL DYSON: I can see it. And that looks good, Scott.
MARTIN: That voice on the other end of the line is Tracy Caldwell Dyson. She's watching a feed of commander Kelly's spacewalk from Houston.
CALDWELL DYSON: I am totally in their air - I mean (laughter) to an annoying degree, probably.
MARTIN: On October 28, Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren were out on their first spacewalk, and their only connection to Earth was Tracy Caldwell Dyson. She was the NASA astronaut in Houston giving them directions.
CALDWELL DYSON: It's nice when you have someone that's done it before because then they can, you know, relay 4 experiences or at least speak to them in a manner that they know that they would want to be spoken to.
MARTIN: She knows what it's like because she's been there. She's done three spacewalks herself. She's a member of a small group of people who've had this experience, not just going up into space but actually floating around in it.
TERRY VIRTS: I've flown jet fighters and been a test pilot. And there's a lot of things I've done in my life. But I had never - there's nothing like spacewalking.
MARTIN: This is Terry Virts. He's been on two spaceflights, and he's done three spacewalks. Before you get to float around in the atmosphere, there's a lot of training, as you'd expect. Much of it happens in a huge swimming pool at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. It's the closest you can come to simulating 5 the experience. Here's Tracy Caldwell Dyson.
CALDWELL DYSON: You know, we take it for granted in the pool here where we train that we don't have to have a death grip. But when you're out in space and you realize there's no tether other than the one that you've attached to structure - there's no diver floating around to keep you safe - and you just see this planet beneath your feet going 17,500 miles per hour, and you and the other person in a puffy white suit are the only two out there in the vacuum of space, you tend to hang on a little tighter.
MARTIN: And that puffy white suit is really heavy.
VIRTS: The spacesuit itself weighs about 400 pounds on Earth, and it's pressurized. And so what looks like a big, thick, bulky, you know, winter parka - when you pressurize it, that material becomes like steel. And so moving around in this spacesuit, just to move your arm requires physical exertion 6.
MARTIN: Tracy Caldwell Dyson remembers her first spacewalk clearly.
CALDWELL DYSON: I had to go out the hatch 7 and go immediately on top of the crew lock. And when you go on top of it, you are basically looking behind the space station at the aft end, we call it. And there's nothing - no structure in your view. And you just see the earth. And I'm up there, and, you know, even though I've got, you know, probably 50 handrails all around me that I can hang on to and I've got a hook 8 - a big hook from my waist to structure so I know about going anywhere - it was still one of those breathtaking moments where it's like, whoa (laughter).
MARTIN: Those moments of reflection are rare. These spacewalks can take more than seven hours, and they demand intense, focused concentration.
VIRTS: Ninety-nine-and-a-half percent of your time - my time on my spacewalks, I can say - was completely focused on what was going on. I felt not rushed, but pressed every second that I was outside. Like, there's no time to stop and look around. There's no time to take pictures. There's no time to do anything other than - you got another task going on because you don't want to spend extra time outside.
MARTIN: Because things can go wrong.
LUCA PARMITANO: My name is Luca Parmitano. I live in Houston because I'm an astronaut.
MARTIN: Two years ago, things did go very wrong for this Italian astronaut. Early on in his spacewalk, he felt water on the back of his head.
PARMITANO: And I knew that something was not right.
MARTIN: There was a leak in his helmet. Parmitano didn't want to tell ground control in Houston. He knew they might cancel his spacewalk. And at that moment, he really didn't think it was a big deal. But he told them anyway.
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PARMITANO: I feel a lot of water on the back of my head.
SHANE KIMBROUGH: Are you sweating? Are you working hard?
PARMITANO: I am sweating. But it feels like a lot of water.
That is when things went really south. The sun went down. And when the sun goes down on an orbit, it is not like one of those beautiful sunsets. It lasts only a few seconds. One second you have light, and the next you have no light whatsoever 9. It is complete, utter blackness. And at that moment, I was also upside down. And that's when the water covered my eyes, my ears and my nose.
MARTIN: A liter and a half of water had flooded into his helmet. It came from the cooling system in his suit. Water acts differently in space. It forms a goopy kind of gel that sticks to your skin.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
KIMBROUGH: Hey Luca, can you clarify - is it increasing or not increasing?
PARMITANO: It's hard to tell, but it feels like a lot of water.
MARTIN: Pretty quickly, that water disabled Parmitano's communication system.
PARMITANO: I couldn't hear anything anymore. I couldn't see anything anymore. And I couldn't breathe through my nose because my nose was filled up with water.
MARTIN: He could still breathe through his mouth, but he couldn't see. Slowly, he felt his way along the surface of the space station in the direction of the airlock. When he finally made it back, his partner on that spacewalk, Chris Cassidy, radioed to Houston that Luca was fine - miserable 10, but fine.
Has this changed your ambition? Has this changed your desire to go back up in space again?
PARMITANO: Well, I was - I wanted to go out the next day.
MARTIN: No matter the risk, it's hard for astronauts to call it quits. Here's Tracy Caldwell Dyson.
CALDWELL DYSON: It's my hope that I get to go again. But we have so few flight opportunities, and we have new people that haven't flown once, even. And so you need to give everybody a chance to get up there and get that experience.
MARTIN: NASA ended its shuttle program in 2011, which means when NASA sends astronauts into space, they ride on small spacecraft operated by other countries. Astronauts just don't have as many opportunities as they used to.
VIRTS: The flights that you've had are fine, but the only flight you really care about is your next flight.
MARTIN: Again, this is astronaut Terry Virts.
VIRTS: I can remember watching the sun rise, which is just spectacular 11. It reaches from one side of the horizon to the other. It's a long, thin blue-orange band. And I just remember, you know, almost hearing from God sitting there, thinking about creation 12. It's almost like you're in some secret room, seeing something that, you know, humans weren't meant to see or something. It was kind of a glance into the forbidden view.
MARTIN: Astronauts Terry Virts, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, and Luca Parmitano.

1 planetarium
n.天文馆;天象仪
  • The planetarium staff also prepared talks for radio broadcast.天文馆的工作人员还要准备讲稿给电台广播。
  • It landed in a shallow basin fifty yards from the planetarium.它降落在离天文馆五十码处的一个浅盆地中。
2 vent
n.通风口,排放口;开衩;vt.表达,发泄
  • He gave vent to his anger by swearing loudly.他高声咒骂以发泄他的愤怒。
  • When the vent became plugged,the engine would stop.当通风口被堵塞时,发动机就会停转。
3 bearings
举止( bearing的名词复数 ); 风度; 方向; 轴承
  • To keep your bearings in a desert sandstorm is impossible. 在沙漠的尘暴中要想保持方位感是不可能的。
  • With the aid of a compass the traveler can find his bearings. 藉助罗盘,旅行者可以找到自己所处的方位。
4 relay
n.接力赛,中继转播(设备);vt.转述,转播
  • They will relay your message.他们会转达你的口信。
  • This metal tower is used to relay television signals to distant villages.这个金属塔是用于向遥远的村子转播电视讯号的。
5 simulating
模拟
  • There was no time for simulating non-recognition. 已经来不及假装没看见了。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • "Good-night," he said, simulating an easy friendliness. “晚安,"他装出轻松友好的神气说道。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
6 exertion
n.尽力,努力
  • We were sweating profusely from the exertion of moving the furniture.我们搬动家具大费气力,累得大汗淋漓。
  • She was hot and breathless from the exertion of cycling uphill.由于用力骑车爬坡,她浑身发热。
7 hatch
n.孵化,舱口;vt.孵,孵出,策划;vi. 孵化
  • No one knows how the new plan will hatch out.谁也不知道这新方案将怎样制订出来。
  • The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋,想去孵它。
8 hook
vt.钩住;n.钩子,钩状物
  • The blacksmith forged a bar of iron into a hook.铁匠把一根铁条锻造成一个钩子。
  • He hangs up his scarf on the hook behind the door.他把围巾挂在门后的衣钩上。
9 whatsoever
adv.(用于否定句中以加强语气)任何;pron.无论什么
  • There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
  • All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样,你就怎样对人。
10 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
11 spectacular
adj.引人注目的,出色的,与众不同的
  • This is a spectacular film.这是一部场面壮观的电影。
  • This is the most spectacular financial crash of the decade.这是10年里最引人注目的金融破产事件。
12 creation
n.创造,创造的作品,产物,宇宙,天地万物
  • Language is the most important mental creation of man.语言是人类头脑最重要的产物。
  • The creation of new playgrounds will benefit the local children.新游戏场的建立将有益于当地的儿童。
学英语单词
Aardenburg
accelerating pressure gradient
Achras
advertainment
anatomical age
anethocurarium diiodide
asplenium oldhamii hance
automatic depuration
azotometer
ballistocardiogram
balum
behavioral relationship
blacksmith shop
brea
Brucetown
can-cap printer
character symbol set
clarkei
coin-tossing game
come to close quarters
community economic well-being indicator
convo
core-peripheries
cryogenic magnetic system
cultivation of fields
cyclopropylrhodamine
dataflows
diffusion theory
digylcol stearatee
ectinosomatid
enhanceable language
epilations
fatherless
gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase
general secretary of government
Ham.
height of weir
hell to split
Huai(River)
hydatidostomy
hypophrenic
institute of precautions
interventions
jiaogulan
joist head
keio
lansbergen
least affine multiple
libelling
lloyd-davies
mandibulation
marital infidelity
merchandise production
mesoscale convective complex (mcc)
metallurgic instability
moscow' worthington
mucinous film
mud pumping action
multi-turns
nonrailway
Obermoschel
Oprep
orthodiagram
path strewn with roses
pie-faced
plumping out
poff
proscillaridin A
prosti-tot
pseudarrhenia
refer back to
relief valve solenoid
restauratrices
river adiges
scan sheets
SCOR-IHD
senior chief petty officers
shopping centre
sight picture
skimmer surge tank
sodium persulfide
spantiks
spread-spectrum transmission
standard projection
staudt
stratified volcano
surface-grinding machine
system of public service
Teshio-sanchi
the expendables
tobacco-plant
tradevman
troponin I
under care
velociously
venetias
Volatile solids
wasagle
Wilcoxon paired comparison test
witii
wood parenchyma