昂立口译二阶段备考训练_U3.pdf

《口译二阶段备考训练》2010 年10 月第6 版 Unit 3 Academic Lecture 1. A starting point for all astronomy students should be the great star “Venus”. 天文学专业的学生都应该把金星作为自己学习的起点。 2. Of course, we know it is not a star at all but the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. 当然，我们都知道金星其实不是恒星，而是距太阳距离第二，体积第六大的行星。 3. Venus is usually visible with the unaided eye. Sometimes referred to as the “morning star” or the “evening star”, it is the brightest star in the sky. 通常情况下，我们用肉眼就可以看到金星。有时金星被称为“启明星”或“长庚星”，他是 天空中最亮的星。 4. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon. 它是天空中除月亮和太阳之外最亮的天体。 5. Venus probably once had large amounts of water like Earth, but it all boiled away so now it’s quite dry. 金星上曾经像地球一样，存在大量的水分，但是这些水分全部汽化了，所以如今的金星是基 本上没有水分。 6. Earth would have suffered the same fate had it been just a little closer to the Sun. 要是当时地球离太阳太近的话，它就会和金星遭遇同样的命运。 7. Much of the surface of Venus is covered by lava flows and there are several large volcanoes. 金星表面大部分地区被熔岩流覆盖，同时金星上还有几座巨大的火山。 8. Findings also indicate that there are still some active volcanoes on the Venus, but only in a few spots. 研究结果还表明，金星上还有一些活火山存在，但只是很少的几个地方。 9. For the most part, it has been geologically rather quiet for the past few hundred million years. 对金星的的大部分地区而言，在过去几亿年中基本上没有大的地质变化。 10. Well enough about the introduction of Venus, tomorrow I’d like to tell you how to locate it. 这些就是有关金星的介绍，明天我将告诉大家如何确定金星的位置。 11. I want to talk today about some studies that seem to indicate that there has been a startling world-wide decline in the number of amphibians such as frogs. 我今天要讲的是一些研究，表明在世界范围内青蛙等两栖动物的数量正在以惊人的速度下降。 12. There is little doubt that one reason why the number of amphibians is declining is their habitats are being destroyed. When developers fill ponds and marshes to build houses, amphibians can’t just move somewhere else. 我们基本上可以确定，两栖动物数量减少的原因