英语听力：2013-11-10 地平线：黑洞吞噬—23

 There was now a pressing challenge to understand how black holes in their surrounding galaxies¹.  To be so intertwined.，professor Andy Fabian in the Cambridge University is one astronomer² who began to look. 

Like the ripples³, they travel out from his prattles⁴. It's the extreme radiationposing out of black holes that Fabian turn to for clues. To see that radiation clearly, you need to look beyond the ordinary light of the stars. At one kind of mission, that's the firing signature afeeding black holes. 

 

 

Stars in everything are beautiful make galaxies in that. But there are a lot of other things going on out there. An enormous amount energy being released which we can ..aware of if we look with X-ray eyes. 

 

 

One class store of galaxies in particular, pursias, is a long standing⁵ object to fascination⁶.250 million light years away, Fabian has spent 40 years studying this fascinating piece of the sky. 

 

 

What seem trading is this thing here. This is the central galaxy⁷ in the pusiasclass...here. In the fact, those red and blue staff going around it means that something’s going on.  

 

 

The far amount of stars hiding the hot pasias was early rebuilt when Fabian was able to look at the cluster in the X-ray part of the specter. 

1 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。

2 astronomer   

n.天文学家

参考例句：

• A new star attracted the notice of the astronomer.新发现的一颗星引起了那位天文学家的注意。
• He is reputed to have been a good astronomer.他以一个优秀的天文学者闻名于世。

3 ripples   

逐渐扩散的感觉( ripple的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The moon danced on the ripples. 月亮在涟漪上舞动。
• The sea leaves ripples on the sand. 海水在沙滩上留下了波痕。

4 prattles   

v.（小孩般）天真无邪地说话( prattle的第三人称单数 )；发出连续而无意义的声音；闲扯；东拉西扯

参考例句：

• She prattles on about the village gossip. 她闲扯些村里的事。 来自互联网
• I find myself unaccustomed to the present situation where no one prattles on besides me. 现在没人絮语，反而有点不习惯了。 来自互联网

5 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

6 fascination   

n.令人着迷的事物，魅力，迷恋

参考例句：

• He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
• His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。

7 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。