新闻英语精解【76】伽利略号结束14年太空探索使命

Galileo Mission Ends with Dive Into Jupiter

【参考译文】伽利略号撞向木星自焚

(Reuters) - NASA 's Galileo space probe made a controlled, fiery crash into Jupiter on Sunday, ending a 14-year mission that yielded dramatic discoveries about the largest planet and its moons. The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California received the final signal from the spacecraft at 3:43 p.m. EDT, the laboratory said in a statement.

【参考译文】路透社－（美国）国家航空和航天局的太空探测器本周日在地面人员控制下撞向木星，在获得众多关于木星及其卫星的重大发现后结束了14年来的使命。加利福尼亚航空站喷气推进实验室在声明中表示，实验室收到最后信号的时间是美国东部时间下午3点43分。

【讲解】NASA，National Aeronautics and Space Administration.国家航空航天局。
总结一下九大行星的英语名称，水星mercurary，金星Venus，地球earth，火星mars，木星就是本文中的jupiter，土星saturn。其中木星是太阳系中最大的行星。
Propulsion，The process of driving or propelling. 推进驱使或推进的过程。aircraft ropulsion，【航空】飞机推进。

More than 1,000 people who worked on the Galileo program gathered at the laboratory to celebrate the end of the mission. Team member Rosaly Lopes described the farewell celebration as bittersweet. Launched from space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, Galileo traveled about 2.8 billion miles before it disintegrated in Jupiter's dense atmosphere on Sunday.

【参考译文】1000多位“伽利略”项目负责人员聚集在实验室庆祝这次使命的结束。工作组成员罗斯丽用哭乐参半来描述这次告别庆祝会。伽利略号宇宙飞船1989年乘“亚特兰蒂斯”太空梭进入太空，从发射到毁灭，它在太空中总共飞跃了2800万英里。本周日，伽利略冲入浓厚的木星大气层焚毁。

【讲解】bittersweet，苦乐参半的：a movie with a bittersweet ending.结尾亦悲亦喜的电影；bittersweet memories ，苦乐参半的回忆；bitter-sweet memories ，伤心但愉快的回忆。
space shuttle.太空飞船；space shuttle，航天飞机。

Galileo orbited Jupiter 34 times and obtained the first direct measurements of its atmosphere by sending a probe parachuting down toward the planet in 1995. It detected evidence of underground salt-water oceans beneath the icy crusts of Jupiter's moon Europe.

【参考译文】伽利略号围绕木星运转34次，1995年向木星发射了探测降落伞对大气层进行了首次直接探测，并发现在木星的冰层表层有可能存在着海洋。

【讲解】orbit，The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body. 沿某一轨道运转。
Parachute做动词讲是意思是To drop (supplies or troops, for example) by means of a parachute. 伞投用降落伞投下（例如，军备或物资）