VOA慢速英语:'Part-Time Scientists' Try to Put Vehicle on Moon

短语讲解：

1. The goal is to use private financing to build a planetary rover and send it to the moon.

send to 发送到; 发送给
例句：I have some shirts to send to the laundry.
我有几件衬衣要送到洗衣房去湿洗。

2. His team hopes to send the rover on its way to the moon by the end of 2017.

by the end of 到…为止
例句：By the end of the game, the stadium was almost vacant.
到比赛结束的时候,体育馆几乎空了。