Lesson 71 Television Day:Moonflight
第71課 電視日:去月球旅行
Last week we recorded this interview with one of the astronauts
上星期我們錄下了采訪一位宇航員
who had returned from a recent moonflight.
剛從月球返回的的情況.
We asked him to tell us what he had done and what he had seen.
我們請了他給我們談?wù)勊慕?jīng)歷和他的所見.
We asked him what it was like on the moon.
我們問了他月球上是怎么個樣子的.
This is what he told us:
他是這樣對我們說:
and to recover instruments from an earlier landing.
以及找回上次登月的儀器
We made a perfect landing beside a small crater in the Sea of Tranquillity.
我們在靜海的一個小隕石坑旁安全著陸.
First we collected some samples of rock
首先,我們收集了一些巖石標(biāo)本,
and then fixed up the television cameras.
然后安裝好電視攝像機,
After this we walked on the moon's surface to look for the instruments.
之后在月球上行走尋找儀器.
We found them very quickly and saw the footprints astronauts had made years before!
我們很快就找到了儀器,發(fā)現(xiàn)了前幾年宇航員留下的腳印.
It's strange to think that nothing wears away on the moon's surface.
想到月球表面上的東西一點都沒有磨損,使人非常奇怪.
What impressed me most?Several things.
什么事情給找印象最深呢?有好幾件事情.
Our earth shining brightly in a black sky.
我們的地球在黑暗的空中明亮地閃爍著.
It looked blue and white in the distance.
從遠處看它是藍白色的.
And then,the silence on the moon,
還有月球上的那種寂靜,
and its landscape which is both mysterious and beautiful.
月球那種既神秘又美麗的景色.
Mysterious because the horizon is never far away,
說它神秘,因為地平線從不遙遠;
and beautiful because of the sharp contrast between light and shadow."
說它美麗,因為光亮和陰暗形成了那么鮮明的對照."