万花筒 2008-09-27&09-28 神七升空！

Reuters.

 

Live on Chinese State Television, a Chinese countdown.

 

“6,5,4,3,2,1, 点火”

 

And the Long March Rockets carrying a Shenzhou 7 spacecraft with three astronauts launches from a remote site in northwest China. The astronauts plan to make a space walk which will be a first for China, one of only three countries to put humans into space.

 

The ability to do what's also called extravehicular activity is essential for China’s long-term goal for assembling an orbiting station in the next decade and possibly making a visit to the Moon.

 

Chinese media has given the mission a fanfare¹ of coverage², from astronaut-training to new ways to serve food in a spacecraft. Like other space-faring nations, China is aware of the military advantages of a foothold in space.

 

Beijing's space program has raised hackles in Tokyo and beyond, although officials are quick to stress that the program is for purely³ peaceful purposes. China has a fleet of ships and helicopters ready to meet the vehicle when it returns to earth after its three-day mission.

 

Benet Allen, Reuters.

 

1 fanfare   

n.喇叭；号角之声；v.热闹地宣布

参考例句：

• The product was launched amid much fanfare worldwide.这个产品在世界各地隆重推出。
• A fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the King.嘹亮的小号声宣告了国王驾到。

2 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

3 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。