福克斯新闻 维珍银河太空船事故调查开始

The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into the cause of the crash of Virgin¹ Galactic's SpaceShip Two on Friday.

美国国家运输安全委员会正对周五维珍银河的两起太空船事故原因展开调查。

It went down in the Mojave Desert in California, seconds after it took off, killing² one pilot and hurting another.

这艘飞船升空数秒后在加州莫哈韦沙漠坠毁,造成一名飞行员死亡,另一人严重受伤。

Sir Richard Branson is Virgin Galactic's founder³.

而维珍银河公司创始人理查德·布兰森爵士表示。

“My hands are completely tied by the NTSB, who are doing the investigation⁴, and who are doing an incredibly thorough investigation…And, quite rightly, they don't want me to start speculating.”

”我的安危完全捏在对事故展开调查的美国国家运输安全委员会手心里,他们正在进行令人难以置信的彻底调查…,很正确,他们不希望我有任何猜测。”

The company plans to fly passengers to altitudes more than 62-miles above Earth.

这家公司曾计划让乘客们在距地球表面超过62英里处进行太空旅行。

Seats for those trips are about 250-thousand dollars each.

而这趟梦幻之旅的每个座位售价约25万美元。

1 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

4 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。