VOA慢速英语:A Watery Flight to the Moon(翻译)

短语讲解：

1. Ten teams are taking part in the competition.

take part in 参加…，参与…活动
例句：They returned to take part in the season's opening game.
他们回来参加本赛季的开幕赛。

2. The idea for a water-powered vehicle came from Mason Peck, who works at Cornell University.

come from 源自;来自某处;出生于
例句：Where did you come from?
你打哪儿来？

3. “A lot of the mass we send into orbit these days is in the form of rockets – the only way we get anything into space,” he said, in a Cornell press release.

in the form of 用…的形式
例句：There have been many improvements in the form of cars.
汽车的形状已有很多改进。