新概念英语第二册MP3教程附字幕 lesson61

Lesson 61

Dangerous Descent

危险的出舱

In future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is still in space and to return to it. The ability to do this will be necessary in future flights to distant planets. Scientists are now trying to discover if this is possible. The spaceship Astra which left the earth a short time ago, will be travelling three hundred miles into space. At a certain point, the Astra will stop for a short time and an astronaut will attempt to leave the stationary spaceship and then return to it. We shall not know whether the experiment has been successful until we have received a radio message. The first message is expected to arrive at 7 o’clock this evening. By that time, the Astra will have been flying through space for seventeen hours and will have circled the earth a grate many times. When the first radio messages have been received, the results of the trip will be announced immediately.

New words and expressions 生词和短语

astronaut n. 宇航员

descent vi. 出舱

space n. 空间

planet n. 行星

stationary a. 静止的

circle vi. 环绕，盘旋

announce v. 宣布

参考译文

将来，要求宇航员从停在太空里的飞船中出来并再回到里面去。在将来向遥远的行星飞行的时候，需要这样的能力。科学家们正在探索这是否可能。不久前离开地球的阿斯特拉号飞船将要飞行三百英里进入太空。阿斯特拉号将要在某处稍停片刻，宇航员将试图离开停着的飞船，然后再回到里面去。等我们接到无线电信息时，才知道是否成功。第一次信息预计在今晚七点到达。到那时，阿斯特拉号将已在太空中连续飞行十七小时，并已绕地球好多圈了。等到我们收到第一次无线电信息时，我们将立即宣布飞行结果。