英语听力：自然百科 行星旅行指南：木星 Jupiter—19

 One day we might develop the magnetic field technology necessary to keep a human alive within Jupiter¹’s radiation environment. But in the near future, our exploration will continue by machine.

 

The robotic program isn’t about robots. It’s a profoundly² human activity that we’re just sending pieces of ourselves out there to do these jobs.

 

Pretty soon you’re using the eyes of the spacecraft as your eyes, and you get very attached to your heroic spacecraft which survives numerous death-defying experiences.

 

If you listen to people who’ve been involved in these explorations over the years, they say, “Oh that was the year we went by Enceladus, that’s the year we went to Neptune³, / very, very much a personal thing.” The differences between being here or being there start/ blurring⁴.

 

To be so familiar / with such alien worlds shows how far we’ve traveled, thanks to Galileo, both the man and the robot. And the voyage continues.

 

I’d love to visit Io if I could. It’s one of my favorite places in the solar system. You would always have Jupiter hanging in the background, huge and multi-colored and constantly changing. It would be a pretty amazing place to see.

 

For a trip to study the weather of Jupiter, I’ll get down in the atmosphere where the lightning is being formed, /then I just look out of the window and enjoy the flashes. 

 

Europa a kind of has it all. I’d love to be able to poke⁵ around(闲逛) down there in Europa’s ocean. Might there really be life down there? It’s probably not something unknown in my lifetime. But we’ll set the stage for the next generation of explorers to find out.

 

1 Jupiter   

n.木星

参考例句：

• Jupiter is unlike the Earth in almost every way.木星与地球几乎完全不同。
• The astronomers were taking an observation of Jupiter.天文学家们正在观测木星。

2 profoundly   

ad.深深地

参考例句：

• We are profoundly affected by what happens to us in childhood. 童年发生的事深深地影响着我们。
• It disturbs me profoundly that you so misuse your talents. 你如此滥用自己的才能，使我深感不安。

3 Neptune   

n.海王星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun.海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Neptune turned out to be a dynamic,stormy world.海王星原来是个有生气、多风暴的世界。

4 blurring   

n.模糊，斑点甚多，（图像的）混乱v.（使）变模糊( blur的现在分词 )；（使）难以区分

参考例句：

• Retinal hemorrhage, and blurring of the optic dise cause visual disturbances. 视网膜出血及神经盘模糊等可导致视力障碍。 来自辞典例句
• In other ways the Bible limited Puritan writing, blurring and deadening the pages. 另一方面，圣经又限制了清教时期的作品，使它们显得晦涩沉闷。 来自辞典例句

5 poke   

n.刺，戳，袋；vt.拨开，刺，戳；vi.戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
• Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。