《新概念英语》青少版第四册第71课:Television Day:Moonflight

Lesson 71  Television Day:Moonflight
第71课 电视日:去月球旅行
Last week we recorded this interview with one of the astronauts
上星期我们录下了采访一位宇航员
who had returned from a recent moonflight.
刚从月球返回的的情况.
We asked him to tell us what he had done and what he had seen.
我们请了他给我们谈谈他的经历和他的所见.
We asked him what it was like on the moon.
我们问了他月球上是怎么个样子的.
This is what he told us:
他是这样对我们说:
We went to the moon to get samples of moon-rock
我们去月球取月球岩石标本
and to recover instruments from an earlier landing.
以及找回上次登月的仪器
We made a perfect landing beside a small crater in the Sea of Tranquillity.
我们在静海的一个小陨石坑旁安全着陆.
First we collected some samples of rock
首先,我们收集了一些岩石标本,
and then fixed up the television cameras.
然后安装好电视摄像机,
After this we walked on the moon's surface to look for the instruments.
之后在月球上行走寻找仪器.
We found them very quickly and saw the footprints astronauts had made years before!
我们很快就找到了仪器,发现了前几年宇航员留下的脚印.
It's strange to think that nothing wears away on the moon's surface.
想到月球表面上的东西一点都没有磨损,使人非常奇怪.
What impressed me most?Several things.
什么事情给找印象最深呢?有好几件事情.
Our earth shining brightly in a black sky.
我们的地球在黑暗的空中明亮地闪烁着.
It looked blue and white in the distance.
从远处看它是蓝白色的.
And then,the silence on the moon,
还有月球上的那种寂静,
and its landscape which is both mysterious and beautiful.
月球那种既神秘又美丽的景色.
Mysterious because the horizon is never far away,
说它神秘,因为地平线从不遥远;
and beautiful because of the sharp contrast between light and shadow."
说它美丽,因为光亮和阴暗形成了那么鲜明的对照."