英文原版对话1000个:1078 UFO's and Area 51

 　　Todd: Well, what about Area 51?

 

　　Jonathan: Area 51 i something people always talk about. I'm not really sure what to believe but I essentially¹ think that something's that's a secret that large could never be covered up for such a long period of time. There has never been solid evidence that anything happened there, and I really doubt that there was anything. Probably the United States military was testing something secret that they wanted to keep a secret and a lot of things that people report as UFOs

 

　　Todd: Yeah, I agree. i think that's my, you know, my explanation for it, although I think personally, I do believe that there must be life out there, I just don't know if it's in the way we see aliens. What do you think?

 

　　Jonathan: I certainly believe that there must be something out there. I mean billions of other galaxies², countless³ billions of other starts. I think it's a little bit arrogant⁴ to somehow believe that we are so special, that we're the only life. I mean, just recently, they found that there is in fact water on our moon, which suggest that water can exist in other places and if that is the basis of life perhaps we may find out in the future that life is no so special as we believe even if it happens in one in one thousand galaxies, that would mean there are millions of other creatures out there, although because of the distances we may never get to know.

1 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

2 galaxies   

星系( galaxy的名词复数 )； 银河系； 一群（杰出或著名的人物）

参考例句：

• Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
• We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。

3 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

4 arrogant   

adj.傲慢的，自大的

参考例句：

• You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
• People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。