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名人教你讲英文:探月计划

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名人教英文:探月计划

嫦娥二号绕月探测卫星成功进入轨道,中国探月工程又迈进了一步。嫦娥二号的英文名称(汉语拼音)是「chang'e-2」。有关报道说:china moved closer to its goal of landing on the moon as its second unmanned lunar probe, chang'e-2, blasted off seconds before 7:00pm on friday (1 october) from the southwestern city of xichang (西昌).

报道又说:the circumlunar satellite separated from the rocket at 7:26pm to enter the earth-moon transfer orbit. in less than five days, it will enter a 100-kilometer lunar orbit. the chang'e-2 mission is considered a starting point of the second stage of china's lunar exploration programme that focuses on landing on the moon.

这里多次出现的形容词lunar,意思是「与月球有关的」:绕月轨道是lunar orbit,探月计划是lunar exploration programme,探月卫星可叫lunar probe,亦可叫lunar satellite或circumlunar satellite。在lunar前面加上circum-,是「围绕月球」的意思。probe作为动词,是侦测、探测;作为名词,指一项侦测的行动,或者一件探测仪器,


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