VOA慢速英語：樂高推出“美國宇航局女性”新套裝

New Lego Set Honors 'Women of NASA'

樂高推出“美國宇航局女性”新套裝

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這里是今日熱點節(jié)目。

Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Nancy Grace Roman and Margaret Hamilton are important names in American space exploration.

薩麗·萊德(Sally Ride)、梅·杰米森(Mae Jemison)、南希·格蕾絲·羅曼(Nancy Grace Roman)和瑪格麗特·漢密爾頓(Margaret Hamilton)都是美國太空探索中一些分量十足的名字。

Jemison is an astronaut, as was Ride. Scientists Roman and Hamilton worked with NASA, the American space agency.

杰米森和萊德都是宇航員，科學家羅曼和漢密爾頓都同美國宇航局有過合作。

Each woman is receiving a very high honor. No, they are not being admitted into a space "Hall of Fame." But this honor might be even better: they are becoming Lego action figures.

每位女性都獲得了很高的榮譽，她們沒有進入“太空名人堂”，但是這項榮譽可能會更好：她們將成為樂高的玩具人偶。

Thanks to the work of a Lego fan and editor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the four women will be represented in miniature toy form starting on November 1.

得益于麻省理工學院一位樂高愛好者和編輯的努力，這四位女性從11月1日起將以微型玩偶的形式出現(xiàn)。

That is when people will be able to purchase the first-ever "Women of NASA" Lego set.

屆時人們將能夠購買有史以來首套名為“美國宇航局女性”的樂高套裝。

The path to Lego fame began in the summer of 2016. Maia Weinstock is the deputy editor of MIT News, a publication of the famous university. She is also a Lego fan.

這條通往樂高名人的道路始于2016年夏天?，攣?middot;溫斯托克(Maia Weinstock)是麻省理工學院這所著名大學的刊物《麻省理工新聞》的副主編，她也是一名樂高愛好者。

According to a story in the publication, Weinstock has an interesting hobby. She makes Lego figures representing important people in the history of MIT.

根據(jù)該刊物上發(fā)表的一則故事，溫斯托克有一個有趣的愛好。她制作了代表麻省理工學院歷史上重要人物的樂高人偶。

But, most recently, she decided not to limit herself to MIT. Weinstock thought bigger and submitted the names of five women to Lego's "Ideas" website.

但是就在最近，她決定不將自己限制在麻省理工學院。溫斯托克想得更遠，她向樂高的“創(chuàng)意”網(wǎng)站提交了五位女性的名字。

She called her submission "Ladies rock outer space!" and described how important those women were to U.S. space exploration.

她將這次提交稱為“震動太空的女性!”并敘述了這些女性對美國太空探索的重要性。

As soon as 10,000 people expressed their support for the set, Lego announced it would produce it.

樂高宣稱只要有一萬人表示支持就會生產(chǎn)該套裝。

In February, Lego said Weinstock's set would be the next Ideas set. And on Wednesday, the toy-maker announced the set would be available in November.

今年二月份，樂高公司表示，溫斯托克提出的套裝將成為下一套創(chuàng)意套裝。而就在本周三，這家玩具制造公司宣布該套裝將在11月上市。

The fifth woman in Weinstock's proposal was Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician made famous by the recent film "Hidden Figures." However, Lego could not agree with Johnson and her family about the look of the figure. So, it was not produced.

溫斯托克提出的第五位女性是非洲裔美國數(shù)學家凱瑟琳·約翰遜(Katherine Johnson),她通過最近的電影《隱藏人物》(Hidden Figures)而名聲大振。然而，樂高無法與約翰遜及其家人在人偶外觀上達成一致，所以未能生產(chǎn)。

The set also includes representations of the Hubble space telescope and the Challenger space shuttle.

該套裝還包括哈勃太空望遠鏡和挑戰(zhàn)號航天飛機的圖像。

Many Lego fans are excited by the news. One Twitter user named Beth had a one-word reaction: "Woohooooooooo!!"

很多樂高粉絲對此消息感到興奮。一位名為Beth的推特用戶只有一個反應：“哇喔!”

And that's What's Trending Today.

以上就是本期今日熱點的全部內(nèi)容。

I'm Caty Weaver.

卡蒂·韋弗報道。