新概念英语第二册 Lesson 61 Trouble with the Hubble 讲义

Lesson 61 Trouble with the Hubble

🌻Part 1: Text

In future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is still in space and to return to it. The ability to do this will be necessary in future flights to distant planets. Scientists are now trying to discover if this is possible. The spaceship Astra which left the earth a short time ago, will be travelling three hundred miles into space. At a certain point, the Astra will stop for a short time and an astronaut will attempt to leave the stationary spaceship and then return to it. We shall not know whether the experiment has been successful until we have received a radio message. The first message is expected to arrive at 7 o'clock this evening. By that time, the Astra will have been flying through space for seventeen hours and will have circled the earth a great many times. When the first radio messages have been received, the results of the trip will be announced immediately.

🌻Part 2: New words and expressions

 

1 Hubble ['hʌbl] n.哈勃

2 telescope['teliskəup] n.望远镜

3 launch [lɔ:ntʃ] v.发射

4 space [speis] n.空间

5 NASA ['næsə] 国家航空和宇宙航行局

6 billion ['biljən] n.10亿

7 faulty ['fɔ:lti] a.有错误的

8 astronaut ['æstrənɔ:t] n.宇航员

9 shuttle ['ʃʌtl] n.宇航飞机

10 Endeavour[in'devə] n.“奋进”号

11 robot-arm n.机器手

12 grab [græb] v.抓

13 atmosphere ['ætməsfiə] n.大气层

14 distant ['distənt] a.遥远的

15 galaxy ['gæləkəsi] n.星系

16 universe ['ju:nivə:s] n.宇宙

17 eagle eye鹰眼

🌻Part 3: Notes on the text

★The Hubble telescope was launched into space by NASA on April 20, 1990 at a cost of over a billion dollars.

1.Hubble telescope看作一个整体, 在句中做主语

2.was launched 动词谓语

3.NASA美国国家航空和宇宙航行局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）

4.具体到某一天，介词用on

on sunny day

5.at a cost of over a billion dollars  花费了超过10亿美元

★The Right from the start there was trouble with the Hubble.

1.the trouble with sth.  关于某事的麻烦

eg：What’s wrong/trouble  with you？

2.trouble sb. 麻烦某人

★The pictures it sent us were very disappointing because its main mirror was faulty!

1.disappointed 感到失望的

disappointing  令人失望的

2.faulty

★NASA is now going to put the telescope right, so it will soon be sending up four astronauts to repair it.

1.Be going to 打算做某事   

2.put sth. right   把某物正确放置，修正，订正

put right表示“修好（故障等）”、“校正”、“纠正”等：

Have you put the watch/clock right?你把表/钟对好了吗？

Remember to put the lights right tomorrow.明天记得把灯修好。

3.The shuttle Endeavour will be taking the astronauts to the Hubble.

will be taking 将来进行时

★A robot-arm from the Endeavour will grab the telescope and hold it while the astronauts make the necessary repairs.

make the necessary repairs 作必要的修理

repair sth. 修理某物

repair a watch 修理手表

★Of course, the Hubble is above the earth's atmosphere.

of course 当然

above 在……上面 (位于正上方)

★so it will soon be sending us the clearest pictures of the stars and distant galaxies that we have ever seen.

1.将来进行时。

2.形容词最高级后面的关系从句常用…ever heard, met, read,seen等完成式：

This is the longest book (that) I have ever read.这是我所看过的书中最长的一部。

Ian is the most interesting man (that/whom) I have ever met.伊恩是我所遇见的最有趣的人。

★The Hubble will tell us a great deal about the age and size of the universe.

a great deal

a great deal of，，，大量的（接不可数名词）

a great deal可以不加名词，这个时候它就被用作副词了。

例如：I've learnt a great deal from this book.

从这本书上我学到了很多。

另外，a great deal of 也可说成a good deal of。