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Section Ⅲ Using Language
THE FATHER OF CHINA'S AEROSPACE
中国航天之父
Perhaps no other scientist has had a greater impact on China's aerospace science than Qian Xuesen.
也许再没有哪一位科学家比钱学森对中国航天科学的影响更大了。
●Described by the authors of the Story of Qian Xuesen as a man with “great scientific thought and scientific spirit” who was patriotic and served his homeland with effort, achievement, and devotion, Qian was an extremely wellrespected man.
《钱学森的故事》一书的作者称钱学森为一位具有“伟大科学思想和科学精神”的爱国人士,他以自己的努力、成就和献身精神为祖国服务,是一位德高望重的人。
①aerospace n. 航空航天工业
②patriotic adj. 爱国的
③“主(Qian)系(was)表(an extremely wellrespected man)”。Described ... and devotion作状语;其中,介词短语with “great scientific thought and scientific spirit” 作后置定语,修饰a man; who was ... and devotion是定语从句,修饰先行词a man。
Born in Hangzhou in 1911, Qian attended schools in Beijing and then entered Shanghai Jiao Tong University to study Railway Mechanical Engineering.
1911年,钱学森出生于杭州,在北京上学,之后进入上海交通大学学习铁路机械工程。
●However, after the Songhu Battle broke out in 1932, Qian made the decision to switch his major to aviation because he realised that China needed its own powerful air force to protect and defend the country.
然而,在1932年“淞沪会战”爆发后,钱学森决定将自己的专业转为航空,因为他意识到中国需要属于自己的强大的空军来保护和保卫国家。
④mechanical adj. 机械的;发动机的;机器的
⑤break out (战争、打斗等不愉快的事情)突然开始;爆发
⑥aviation n. 航空制造业;航空;飞行
⑦defend vt. 保卫;防守;辩解
⑧“时间状语从句(after ... in 1932)+主句(Qian ... the country)”。主句的结构是“主句(Qian ... aviation)+原因状语从句(because ... the country)”。that China ... defend the country是realised的宾语从句; to protect and defend the country是目的状语。
Qian went to the United States in 1935 to pursue his graduate studies.
钱学森于1935年赴美攻读研究生。
Over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, Qian became a pioneer in American jet and rocket technology.
在二十世纪三四十年代,钱学森成为美国喷气式飞机和火箭技术的先驱。
●As a graduate assistant at the California Institute of Technology during the 1930s, Qian helped conduct important research into rocket propulsion, and in the 1940s, he and several other people founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, now one of NA