VOA常速英语2019--人类登月50周年纪念

Forward… Forward… 40 feet down, 2 and a half… picking up some dust…

往前一点……再往前……距离着陆还有40英尺，2.5英尺……卷起一些尘土了……

Today marks of one of the pinnacles¹ of human achievement: fifty years ago, Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Collins were the first humans to land on the surface of the moon.

今天是人类伟大成就的一个纪念日：50年前，阿波罗11号的宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和巴兹·柯林斯成为首批着陆于月球表面的人类。

Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed. . .

这里是静海基地。“鹰”号已着陆……

A little more than six hours after touchdown, Neil Armstrong stepped from the lunar lander and onto the moon’s surface. His footprint remains² in the dust there to this day.

着陆的6个多小时后，尼尔·阿姆斯特朗从登月飞行器上走到了月球表面。他的足迹至今依然留在月球表现的尘土之上。

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

这对于一个人来说只是一小步，但对于整个人类来说却是一大步。

The flight of Apollo 11 was met with a jubilant reaction around the globe. Everyone shared in the success of the astronauts. The front pages of newspapers the world over reflected the strong enthusiasm. Police reports noted³ that streets in many cities were eerily⁴ quiet during the Moon walk as residents watched television coverage⁵ in homes, bars, and other public places.

阿波罗11号的飞行任务引发了世界各地的一片欢腾。所有人都在分享这两名宇航员取得的成功。世界各地报纸头条的大篇幅报道也表明了所有人的热情。警局报告指出，许多城市的街头在宇航员在月球表面行走期间都异常安静，市民们都在家里或者酒吧等公共场合观看电视报道。

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one, then-President Richard Nixon radioed the moonwalkers from the Oval Office. One in their pride in what you have done, and one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.

整个人类史上终于有这样宝贵的一颗——所有地球人都凝聚在一起，时任美国总统尼克松在总统办公室通过广播与宇航员们通话。我要向你们传达全人类对你们所做事情的自豪，也要代表美国人民祈祷你们平安返回地球。

Over the next three and a half years, five more missions would achieve a lunar landing, and ten more Astronauts would walk on the moon. But none came close to capturing the world’s imagination as did that first landing on July 20, 1969.

未来3年半的时间里，还有5次太空任务会实现月球着陆，有10多名宇航员会在月球上行走。但这些任务都不会有1969年7月20日的那次那样激发全人类的想象力。

In the words of Glynn Lunney, the flight director on duty for Apollo 11's climb back to lunar orbit, For all the millennia⁶ that humans have walked on this planet and looked up at the moon and looked up at the stars, this was the first time when two of us walked and worked and lived on another planet.

用阿波罗11号飞行总监格林·伦尼的话来说，对于人类还在地球上行走、在地球上观测月球及其他恒星的时代里，这是首次有2个人类在另一颗星星上工作并生活。

And in the big sweep of history yet to come, we may look back on this not as a technological⁷ achievement, we may end up looking back and seeing that it was the beginning of a new stage for mankind as we know it.

在未来还有许多创造历史的时刻涌来之际，我们可能不会将这件事视为科技成就，在回顾过去时，我们会将这次任务视为全人类新阶段的开始。

1 pinnacles   

顶峰( pinnacle的名词复数 )； 顶点； 尖顶； 小尖塔

参考例句：

• What would be the pinnacles of your acting and music? 对你而言什麽代表你的演技和音乐的巅峰？
• On Skye's Trotternish Peninsula, basalt pinnacles loom over the Sound of Raasay. 在斯开岛的特洛登尼许半岛，玄武岩尖塔俯瞰着拉塞海峡。

2 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

3 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

4 eerily   

adv.引起神秘感或害怕地

参考例句：

• It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了，到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
• The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句

5 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

6 millennia   

n.一千年，千禧年

参考例句：

• For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews. 两千年来，异族通婚一直是犹太人的一大禁忌。
• In the course of millennia, the dinosaurs died out. 在几千年的时间里，恐龙逐渐死绝了。

7 technological   

adj.技术的；工艺的

参考例句：

• A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
• Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。