Hubble [ˈhʌbl] n. 哈勃
telescope [ˈteliskəup] n. 望远镜
【扩】spyglass 小型望远镜
【搭】single-tube telescope 单筒望远镜
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A: My father sent me a new telescope yesterday.
B: Is it a birthday present?
A：我爸爸昨天送了一个新的望远镜给我。
B：那是给你的生日礼物吗？
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launch [lɔːntʃ] v. 发射
【搭】launch out 出航
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A: I won't be surprised if the launch is scrubbed today.
B: But I don't think they will scrub it.
A：即使今天发射取消，我也不会感到意外。
B：但我认为他们不会取消的。
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space [speis] n. 空间
NASA [ˈnæsə] n. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) 国家航空和航天局
billion [ˈbiljən] n. 10亿
【扩】million 百万 thousand 千 hundred 百
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A: They plan to spend five billion yuan on the project.
B: It's really a lot of money.
A：他们计划在这个项目上花费50亿元。
B：那确实是很多钱。
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faulty [ˈfɔːlti] adj. 有错误的
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A: Your reasoning on this point is faulty.
B: What's your opinion then?
A：你在这一点上的推论是错误的。
B：那你的意见是什么呢？
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astronaut [ˈæstrənɔːt] n. 宇航员
shuttle [ˈʃʌtl] n. 航天飞机
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A: The space shuttle is touching down.
B: Have they finished the task this time?
A：那架航天飞机正在着陆。
B：他们这次完成任务了吗？
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Endeavour [inˈdevə] n. “奋进”号
robot-arm [ˈrəubɔt-ˌɑːm] n. 机器手
grab [ɡræb] v. 抓
【派】grabber 强取者
【扩】grasp 紧紧抓住
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A: There is so much work left.
B: Yes, we need to grab some more people to help us.
A：还剩很多工作没做。
B：是的，我们需要再多找几个人来帮我们。
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atmosphere [ˈætməsfiə] n. 大气层
distant [ˈdistənt] adj. 遥远的
【派】distantly 遥远地
【扩】distance 距离
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A: I haven't seen this kind of things before.
B: It comes from a distant place.
A：我之前从来没见过这种东西。
B：它来自一个很遥远的地方。
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galaxy [ˈɡæləksi] n. 星系
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A: It is not in the middle of the galaxy, but rather near one edge.
B: Which book did you learn it from?
A：它不在星系中央而在边缘一带。
B：你是从哪本书里学到的？
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universe [ˈjuːnivəːs] n. 宇宙
eagle eye [ˈiːɡl-ˈai] 鹰眼
noun [专属名词]（Hubble）哈勃（美国天文学家） - At the edge of darkness, after about eight hours, I turned around and saw the Earth from our altitude at Hubble, 568 kilometers up.
noun [专属名词]（Hubble）（美、英、加）哈布尔（人名） - On May 17, 2009, according to the plan, Mike Good and I would take a space walk to the Hubble Space Telescope to repair an instrument.
noun [专属名词]望远镜；射电望远镜，无线电望远镜（radio telescope 的简称） - The telescope has a magnification of 50. 这个望远镜可以放大50倍。
verb [vi. 不及物动词]叠套缩短，叠缩；缩短，精简；使（车辆）相撞而嵌进；压缩 - The telescope was pointing in the wrong direction.
verb [vt. 及物动词]发动，发起；上市，发行；使（船或舰）下水；发射（武器或宇宙飞船）；启动（计算机程序）；投出，用力扔出；使投身于（事业等）；起飞，出海 - To launch a ship or a boat means to put it into water, often for the first time after it has been built.
noun [抽象名词]（航天器的）发射；（产品的）上市；（事件的）发起；汽艇，游艇；（新产品，出版物）发布会，推介会 - his morning's launch of the space shuttle Columbia has been delayed.
launch a rocket / missile / satellite
noun [抽象名词]空间，空地；（用于特定目的的）处所，场所，空位；（公共汽车、火车等的）空座；开阔地，空旷处；开阔，空旷；空白，空隙；太空，外层空间；宇宙空间；一段时间；自由，自由支配的时间；（词语、行、段落的）间隔；（打字时的）空格，一个字母的宽度 - He needed space to be himself.
verb [vi. 不及物动词]在…之间留间隔，把…分隔开；（印刷或书写中）在（词语，字母，行）之间加空格；（尤指因无聊或吸毒后）变得昏昏沉沉，瞪着眼发呆 - One needs space to be oneself.
room n. 空间（不可数）；房间（可数）
- Could you make room for me? 你能为我腾一点空间吗?
noun [专属名词]美国国家航空和宇宙航行局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration） - NASA plans to launch a satellite to study cosmic rays.
numeral [基数词]十亿；<旧>万亿 - The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
noun [抽象名词]十亿；亿万，大量（billions） - Worldwide sales reached 2.5 billion.
adjective [原级]有故障的，有缺陷的；（思维方法）有错误的 - The money will be used to repair faulty equipment.
noun [专属名词]宇航员，太空人 - Astronaut Pierre Thuot tried to latch the 15-foot robotic arm onto the satellite.
noun [具体名词]航天飞机（space shuttle 的简称）；往返于两地的交通工具，摆渡车；（英法之间英吉利海峡隧道的）穿梭火车（the Shuttle）；（织机的）梭子；羽毛球（shuttlecock 的简称） - The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to Earth today.
verb [vt. 及物动词]穿梭，往返；穿梭运送 - He and colleagues have shuttled back and forth between the three capitals.
verb [vt. 及物动词]努力，尽力 - They are endeavouring to protect trade union rights.
noun [抽象名词]努力，尝试；事业，活动 - The company's creative endeavours are thriving.
noun [专属名词]机器手 - The disabled can use robot-arm to do some simple movements.
verb [vt. 及物动词]攫取，抓住；（尤指匆忙地）取，吃，喝；霸占，强夺；利用，抓住（机会）；引人注意，吸引 - I managed to grab her hand.
noun [具体名词]攫取，赚取；抓具，抓斗；抓取（或截获、采集）的图像 - Grab is also a noun.
noun [专属名词]（包围地球或其他行星的）大气，大气层；（房间或其他场所内的）空气；气氛，环境；情调，感染力 - The atmosphere of a place is the air that you breathe there. (
adjective [原级]遥远的，久远的；冷淡的；心不在焉的；远亲的；不相似的，不同的 - He's a distant cousin of mine.
noun [专属名词]星系；银河，银河系（the Galaxy）；群英，人才荟萃 - The Galaxy consists of 100 billion stars.
noun [专属名词]宇宙，天地万物（the universe）；领域，体系；（已知宇宙以外的）宇宙 - If you talk about someone's universe, you are referring to the whole of their experience or an important part of it. (
noun [专属名词]鹰眼：敏锐的观察力或洞察力。 - Fulfill the Eagle Eye function in Electronic Chart Display System.
