extraterrestrial life 外星生命
时间:2015-08-13 05:21:04
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Renowned1 physicist2 Stephen
Hawking3 and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are pushing the search for
extraterrestrial life into higher gear. The pair said Monday the $100m program funded by Milner will combine
unprecedented4 computing5 capacity with the world's most powerful telescopes in a search of the heavens. Milner said the search will be
entirely6 transparent7 and will rely on open-source software so findings can be shared throughout the world.
著名物理学家史蒂芬·霍金和俄罗斯亿万富豪尤里·米尔纳的联合将外星人搜索推向了一个全新的高度。两人20日透露,将由米尔纳出资1亿美元,以前所未有的方式充分利用计算机技术和世界上最强大的望远镜,开启太空搜寻。米尔纳表示,搜寻将全程透明,且使用开源软件,保证最终的发现成果由全世界共享。
外星人用英文表示可以是alien,这个词也有外国人、陌生的等含义。此外上文中的extraterrestrial life可以表示外星生命,这是个天文学名词。ET也可以表示外星人,是extraterrestrial的缩写。智慧外星人即extraterrestrial intelligence。此次寻找外星人计划的英文为search for extraterrestrial intelligence,简称SETI。
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renowned
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| adj.著名的,有名望的,声誉鹊起的 |
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- He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
- She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。
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physicist
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| n.物理学家,研究物理学的人 |
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- He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
- The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。
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hawking
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| 利用鹰行猎 |
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- He is hawking his goods everywhere. 他在到处兜售他的货物。
- We obtain the event horizon and the Hawking spectrumformula. 得到了黑洞的局部事件视界位置和Hawking温度以及Klein—Gordon粒子的Hawking辐射谱。
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unprecedented
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| adj.无前例的,新奇的 |
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- The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
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computing
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| n.计算 |
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- to work in computing 从事信息处理
- Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代(约1980年),他们就创办了软件公司。
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entirely
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| ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 |
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- The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
- His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
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| adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的 |
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- The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
- The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
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