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人教版英语必修3课文翻译（Unit4）

SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER 太空：最后的边境

“Are we alone? What’s out there?” “我们是否孤独？太空以外是什

Looking up at the stars, people

么？” 仰望星空，人们一直想更

have always wanted to learn more

多地了解太空，科学家们也在努

about space, and scientists work

力寻找答案。他们制造运载勇敢

hard to find answers. They make

的人儿进入太空的交通工具来探

vehicles to carry brave people into

索宇宙的秘密。他们也非常希望

space to find out the secrets of the

发现其他适合生命存在的行星。

universe. They also really wish to

discover other planets that are

suitable enough to support life.

Before the mid-20th century, most

在20世纪中叶之前，大多数人都

people felt travelling into space

认为进入太空是不可能实现的梦

was an impossible dream.

想。然而，一些科学家决意要帮

However, some scientists were

助人类实现探索太空的梦想。经

determined to help humans realise

过多次实验，他们成功制造出能

their dream to explore space. After

逃脱地球引力的火箭。1957年10

many experiments, they succeeded

月4日，苏联发射了人造卫星“旅

in making rockets that could escape

伴一号”，并成功环绕地球运行。

Earth’s gravity. On 4 October

此后，苏联将重点放在将人类送

1957, the Sputnik 1 satellite was

入太空，1961年4月12日，尤

lunched by the USSR and

里·加加林成为世界上第一个进

successfully orbited around Earth.

入太空的人。八年后的1969年7

Afterwards, the USSR focused on

月20日，美国宇航员尼尔·阿姆

sending people into space, and on

斯特朗登上月球，他说过一句名

12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin

言：“对一个人来说，这是一小步；

became the first person in the world

对于人类来说，这是一次巨大飞

to go into space. Over eight years

跃。”在此之后，又实现了更多的

later, on 20 July 1969, American

目标。例如，国家航空与航天局

astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped

于1977年9月5日发射了“旅行

onto the moon, famously saying,

者一号”，用于研究外太空，如今

“That’s one small step for (a) man,

它仍在传输数据。

one giant leap for mankind.”

Following this, many more goals

were achieved. For example,

America’s NASA space agency

launched Voyager 1 on 5

September 1977 to study deep

space, and it still transmits data

today.

Although scientists try to make

尽管科学家努力确保万无一失，

sure nothing goes wrong, accidents

但是意外还是可能发生。苏联“联

can still happen. All the astronauts

盟11号”和美国“挑战者”号航天