油炸英语中级听力：Finding Life Beyond Earth 寻找地球以外的生命(中英对照)

2021年1月21日发(作者：裙子的英语)
Finding Life Beyond Earth
寻找地球以外的生命

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、
Finding Life Beyond Earth
寻找地球以外的生命

Since early times, people have been fascinated with the idea of
life existing somewhere else besides earth. Until recently,
scientists believed that life on other planets was just a hopeful
dream. But now they are beginning to locate places where life
could form.
很久以来，
人们就被地球以外存在生命的观点强烈地吸引。
直到近期，
科学家们都坚信外星生命的想法只不过是个有希望的梦想。
但是现在
他们开始定位外星生命形成的位置。

In 1997, they saw evidence of planets near other stars like the
sun. But scientists now think that life could be even nearer in
our own solar system. One place scientists are studying very
closely is Europa, a moon of Jupiter.
在
1997
年，
他们在像太阳这类其他恒星的行星上发现了证据。
可是，
现在科学家认为外星生命甚至更接近我 们，就存在于我们太阳系中。
科学家们正在仔细研究的这个地方是欧罗巴，是木星的卫星。

Space probes have provided evidence that Europa has a large
ocean under its surface. The probes have also made scientists
think that under its surface Europa has a rocky core giving off
volcanic heat. Water and heat from volcanic activity are two
basic conditions needed for life to form.
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太空探索提供的证据表 明在欧罗巴的表层下蕴藏着一个巨大的海洋。
太空探索还使科学家们相信在欧罗巴的表层下有一个岩层核 心，
释放
出火山般的热量。火山活动的水和热是生命形式所需的两个基本条
件。

A third is certain basic chemicals such as carbon, oxygen and
nitrogen. Scientists believe there might be such chemicals lie
at the bottom of Europa's may have already
created life or may be about to. You may wonder if light is also
needed for life to form. Until recently, scientists thought that
light was essential.
第三个条件是某些基本的化学元素，如：碳、氧 、氮。科学家相信在
欧罗巴的海底可能存在这些物质。
它们或许已经创造了生命，
也许 将
来会产生生命。
你或许想知道光对于生命的形成是否必要。
直到最近，
他们 都认为光是必须的。

But now, places have been found on earth that are in total
blackness such as caves several miles beneath the surface. And
bacteria, primitive forms of life have been seen there. So the
lack of light in Europa's sub-surface ocean doesn't
automatically rule out life forming.
但是，
现在地球上完全黑暗的地方也有生命，
如在地表下数公里的洞
穴中。生命原始形式的细菌就存在于那儿。因此，在欧罗巴表层以下
缺少 阳光的海洋中无法自动排除生命存在的可能。

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英语单词词汇整理
:

1. fascinated adj.
被强烈地吸引住的

eg: The child was fascinated by the plots in the novel.
这个小孩被小说的情节吸引住了。

短语：

be fascinated by
着迷于
...;
被
...
吸引住了

feel fascinated
心醉了

Fascinated Perfume
迷迭香

2. locate vt.
找出，位于，建立

vi.
建立，住下来

eg: Rescue teams are using thermal imaging to locate
survivors of the earthquake.
救援队伍正利用热成像确定地震幸存者的位置。

短语：

locate in
在
...
定居
;
坐落于

locate piont
定位点

locate object
定位术
;
定位目标

3. evidence n.
根据，证据

v.
证实，证明

eg: There was no enough evidence to produce him guilty.
没有足够的证据可以证明他有罪。

短语：

material evidence
物证
;
主要证据

in evidence
明显的

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give evidence
作证

direct evidence
直接证据

strong evidence
有力证据
;
真凭实据

4. solar adj.
太阳的，太能的

eg: Saturn is the second biggest planet in the solar system.
土星是太阳系中的第二大行星。

短语：

solar system
太阳系

solar energy
太阳能

solar cycle
太阳
(
活动
)
周期

5. rocky adj.
岩石的

eg: There is only one port along this rocky coast.
这个多岩石的海岸只有一个港口。

短语：

rocky mountain
落基山
(
脉
);
洛矶山
(
脉
)
rocky desert
岩质沙漠

rocky coast
岩石海岸

rocky road
坎坷崎岖的路

6. primitive adj.
原始的

eg: It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。

短语：

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primitive culture
原始文明
;
原生态文化

primitive function
原函数
;
基元功能

primitive religion
原始宗教

佳句采摘：

Since early times, people have been fascinated with the idea of
life existing somewhere elase besides earth.
很久以来，人们就被地球以外存在生命的观点强烈地吸引。


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How to Stop Global Warming
如何阻止全球变暖

Global warming may or not be the great environmental crisis
of the 21st century, but
—
regardless of weather it is or isn't
—

we won't do much about it. We will argue over it and may
even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding
commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and
meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are
to be observed.
全球变暖有 可能是
21
世纪巨大的环境危机，也有可能不是，但是无
论它是或不是我们对此都无能 为力。
我们会争论不休，
作为一个国家，
或许会做出一些听起来相当认真的承诺来避免 这一危机。
但是这些承
诺看起来越是令人印象深刻、越是有意义，就越是不太可能被遵守。
Al Gore calls global warming an
“
inconvenient truth,
”

as if
merely recognizing it could put in on a path to a solution. But
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the real truth is that we don't know enough to believe global
warming, and
—

with our major technological breakthroughs
—

we can't do much about it.
Al Gore
称全球变暖是一个
“让人感 到麻烦的事实”
，
似乎只要认识
到它的存在就可以把我们带往一条解决问题的途经上去 。
但是真正的
事实是，
我们没有掌握足够的知识去缓解全球变暖，
并且如果没 有重
大的技术突破，我们对此也束手无策。

No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic
growth and personal freedom (limits on electricity usage,
driving and travel)that might cut back global warming. Still,
politicians want to show they're
“
doing something
”
. Consider
the Kyoto Protocol. It allowed countries that joined to punish
those that didn't. But it hasn't reduced CO? emissions (up
about 25% since 1990), and many signatories didn't adopt
tough enough policies to hit their 2008
—

2012 targets.
没有哪个政府会 对经济增长和个人自由
(
限制电力的使用，驾驶和旅
游
)
采取严格的 限制令，虽然这样的限制可以缓解全球变暖。即便事
实如此，
执政者们还是想表明他们在
“采取措施”
。
就拿
《京都协议》
来说吧，
它允许其成员国惩罚非 成员国。
但是它并没有起到减少二氧
化碳的排放量
(
自从
1990< br>年以来上升了
25%)
的作用，并且，许多签
字国并没有采取足够严格的政策来 尽力完成他们所制定的
2008
—
2012
年度的目标。

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The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential
disaster, the only solution is new technology. Only an
aggressive research and development program might find
ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing
with it.
比较实际的结论是，
如果全球变暖是一个潜在的灾难，
那么唯一的解
决办法就 是新技术。
只有积极进取的研究开发项目才可能会找到办法
打破我们对于化石燃料的依赖，或者 找到应对这一难题的办法。

The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has
become a moral problem when it's really engineering one. The
inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering
problem, we're helpless.
全 球变暖这场辩论所存在的问题是，
它本是一个技术问题，
却都已经
变成了一个道德问题 。
这个被忽视的真相就是，
如果不能解决这个技
术问题，我们将对此束手无策。

英语单词词汇整理
:

1. solemn adj.
严肃的，庄重的

eg
：
His solemn little face broke into smiles.
他那严肃的小脸绽开了笑容。

短语

solemn promise
庄严承诺

;
誓言

;
郑重承诺

;
庄严的誓言

solemn profession
终身圣愿

;
隆重终身圣愿

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