VOA慢速英语:The Mercury Thirteen Cleared the Way for Women in the US Space Program

2. As a result, President Dwight Eisenhower formed the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration in nineteen fifty-eight.

as a result 结果
例句：Many facts emerged as a result of the investigation. 
调查结果,许多事实暴露出来。 

3. Astronaut candidates had been put through tests at his medicalcenter in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

put through 完成
例句：They have just put through a business deal. 
他们刚刚达成一笔生意。

4. This special machine could move a person in three differentdirections almost at the same time.

at the same time 同时
例句：He may be very rude sometimes but at the same time he isvery kind.
有时候他可能很粗鲁,然而他还是很善良。

5.  For the Mercury Seven male astronauts, psychological and spaceflight testing took place at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base inDayton, Ohio.

take place 发生;举行
例句：When will the basketball game take place?
篮球赛何时举行?

6. But the answer about women in space came less than one yearafter those congressional hearings.

in space 在太空
例句：Man is weightless in space. 
人在太空失重
less than 少于
例句：He is no less than fifty centimetres round the middle. 
他的腰围不小于五十公分。 

7. Seven women were able to attend.

be able to 能够
例句：I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism. 
我很佩服她能对错误的批评意见不予理会。