英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行：土星 Saturn—2

 Imagine boarding a flight to Saturn¹, what would you need to know before traveling? The best ringside vantage points? The must-see moons? Think of this as your personal guide to the splendor² of the Saturnian system. A wandering spot of light twice as far as Jupiter and four times further than the asteroid³ belt. Although it’s a billion miles from home, Saturn has always commanded our attention.

 

“Saturn is the most phenomenological rich planetary system that we have in our solar system because of its rings and planet and magnetosphere and an enormous collection of very diverse moons. It has it all and I mean even just taking the rings as an example, in Saturn’s rings we find examples of the other rings around Jupiter, around Uranus⁴ and Neptune⁵, we find them in Saturn’s ring so. If you wanted to ask fundamental questions about the solar system in general, Saturn would be the place you would go.”

 

When the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft took off in 1997 for a close encounter with Saturn it was packed with essential items for long adventure in deep space: a power generator⁶, extra fuel, a good antenna⁷, and a moon probe. Imaging team leader, Carolyn Porco made sure it took along a pretty good camera too.

 

1 Saturn   

n.农神，土星

参考例句：

• Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings.天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。
• These comparisons suggested that Saturn is made of lighter materials.这些比较告诉我们，土星由较轻的物质构成。

2 splendor   

n.光彩；壮丽，华丽；显赫，辉煌

参考例句：

• Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。
• All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

3 asteroid   

n.小行星；海盘车(动物)

参考例句：

• Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
• It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小，但这样的危险还是存在的。

4 Uranus   

n.天王星

参考例句：

• Uranus is unusual because it is tilted.天王星非常特殊，因为它是倾斜的。
• Uranus represents sudden change and rebellion.天王星代表突然性的改变和反叛。

5 Neptune   

n.海王星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun.海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Neptune turned out to be a dynamic,stormy world.海王星原来是个有生气、多风暴的世界。

6 generator   

n.发电机，发生器

参考例句：

• All the while the giant generator poured out its power.巨大的发电机一刻不停地发出电力。
• This is an alternating current generator.这是一台交流发电机。

7 antenna   

n.触角，触须；天线

参考例句：

• The workman fixed the antenna to the roof of the house.工人把天线固定在房顶上。
• In our village, there is an antenna on every roof for receiving TV signals.在我们村里，每家房顶上都有天线接收电视信号。