The Departed《無間道風云》（精講之五）
[ 2007-06-13 18:02 ]
影片對白 The
readiness is all. You know the players. Call the game.
文化面面觀 National Aeronautics and
Space Administration 美國國家航空航天局簡介
The Space Shuttle
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Space Shuttle Columbia, April
12 1981 | NASA's next major project was the
space shuttle, which the agency promoted as a means of reliable and economical
access to space. As it developed the shuttle during the 1970s, NASA also pursued
the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project with the Soviets, Skylab, and a series of unmanned
exploratory missions, including the Viking probe of Mars. The shuttle began
flying in 1981. Although the shuttle proved not to be as efficient as NASA
promised, more than twenty flights had taken place by the end of 1985.
On 28 January 1986, tragedy struck. The shuttle Challenger exploded
seventy-three seconds after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts aboard. The
disaster stunned NASA and the nation. A presidential commission investigating
the accident sharply criticized NASA's management and safety procedures. After
revamping the program, shuttle flights resumed in 1988.
The Space Station
The 1990s saw NASA make significant improvements to the shuttle program,
pursue a variety of unmanned missions (including the impressive Hubble Space
Telescope), continue research in aeronautics and space science, and work on its
next major project, an orbiting space station. Hampered by budgetary restraints
and widespread criticisms of the initial station design, the project progressed
slowly. In the mid-1980s, NASA had announced that the station would be a
cooperative effort. Fifteen other nations-including Russia, America's former
rival in space-eventually joined with the United States to develop the
International Space Station (ISS). Russia's own space station, Mir, orbited the
Earth from 1986 to 2001.
In late 1998, the first of more than forty space flights needed to transport
and assemble the station in orbit took place. Plans originally called for
international crews of up to seven astronauts to stay on the station for three
to six months at a time. However, unexpectedly high development costs, plus
unexpectedly low financial contributions from Russia, forced NASA to scale back
the project to save money. The first crew to inhabit the station arrived in
November 2000. Assembly of the station was scheduled for completion around 2004.
考考你
用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。
1. 保安查了每個看起來在30歲以下人的身份證。
2. 爸爸對歌劇一無所知，他看不出來它有什么好的。
3. 她忽然想到他可能迷路了。
The Departed《無間道風云》（精講之四）考考你 參考答案
1. 她一點都不在乎他會不會來。
She doesn't give a shit if he comes or not.
2. 買這些圣誕禮物會讓我們接下來幾個月都經濟拮據。
Buying all these Christmas presents will put us
in the hole for the next few months.
3. 別告訴我你又要搞砸了。
Don't tell me you're going to fuck up again.
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