VOA慢速英语(翻译+字幕+讲解):旅行者1号上的镀金唱片
日期:2013-10-10 11:02

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.

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Space scientists recently announced that Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space - the space between stars. The spacecraft carries the voices and sounds of human beings and animals that were living on Earth in 1977 and was launched. The sounds are on a gold-plated phonograph record secured to the side of the spacecraft.

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Tim Ferris mixed the audio that went on the record.

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"The record is a conventional long-playing phonograph record except that it is made of copper and it is covered in gold and then it is put inside a titanium case to protect it."

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Tim Ferris was one of a small group of people who worked to persuade the American space agency to attach the record to Voyager's side.

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Annie Druyan, another member of the group says the original idea came from Frank Drake, an astronomer at the University of California.

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NASA’s Golden Record on Voyager 1 and 2

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"And it seemed to Frank that the best way to compress as much information as possible in a very small space was to do it on a phonograph record."

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And there's plenty of information on the record, it contains messages in 59 human languages.

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It has 118 pictures of life on earth, and 27 pieces of music. Tim Ferris says these demonstrate the diversity of human creation.

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"So there is music on the record from Europe and the United States... But also from Africa, the South Pacific and South America... Georgia, Russia, all these places - such as China, India."

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Shortly after American astronauts returned from space in 1968, the space agency released a photograph of the Earth rising from behind the Moon.

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Margaret Weitekamp is with the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. He says that picture deeply touched people like Frank Drake and his partner on the gold record project, the scientist and TV star Carl Sagan.

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The photo made them think carefully about how they might present all humanity...not just the nation that sent the spacecraft up.

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"Knowing that that picture was taken by a human being I think profoundly changed the thoughts of these people and really made them start thinking about 'If we are this pale blue dot in this ocean of vastness, then how do we communicate something about who we are?'"

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As for the message they chose, Tim Ferris says they could not have chosen anything better.

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"You can't say that an Indian raga or a piece by Bach or a Japanese Shakuhachi piece 'means' something that you can put into words. It is its own end product. It means really what it is. Similar to things in nature. A flower isn't a way of expressing something else. It is the end product. It is what it is."

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And that's the Technology Report from VOA Learning English.

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译文属可可原创,仅供学习交流使用,未经许可请勿转载

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词汇解释

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1.interstellar adj. [航][天] 星际的

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These elements become part of the interstellar gas and dust.
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2.phonograph record n. 唱片

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Would you play the reverse side of that phonograph record please ?
请播放那张唱片的反面好吗 ?

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3.vastness n. 巨大;广大;广漠

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The vastness of space defied comprehension.
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内容解析

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1.Tim Ferris was one of a small group of people who worked to persuade the American space agency to attach the record to Voyager's side.

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attach to结,系,贴;装;连接;依附;参加(党派、团体等),使成为一分子,使在一起:

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A tag was attached to each article.
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He attached himeself to our group.
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2.You can't say that an Indian raga or a piece by Bach or a Japanese Shakuhachi piece 'means' something that you can put into words.

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put into words 用语言表达

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She put into words what he had felt rather vaguely.
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It is not always easy to put one's ideas into words.
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参考译文

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这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道Ke7q[Kl|]uOU0cUPr!,X

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太空科学家宣称旅行者1号是第一个到达星际空间的飞行器,这艘飞行器携带着1977年生活在地球的人类和动物的声音,然后发射入太空,声音被录制在一张镀金唱片上,安放在飞行器的一侧^Muc*_;N9nHFO5laD&oR

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蒂姆·费里斯合成了唱片里的音频BB6]Jis]6@D]Rwz9z^3

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“这是一张常见的长时间播放唱片,只不过是铜做的,表面镀金,被放在一个钛盒里以作保护]gx[D6f&K!gBE。”

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当时有个小组织努力劝说美国航天局将唱片绑在旅行者号的一侧,蒂姆·费里斯就是其中一个JTt,a77+pJJa

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该组织的另一位成员Annie Druyan称最初的想法来自加州大学天文学家法兰克·德雷克7yw^XkjJrJus|V_eI@+

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“在法兰克看来,将尽可能多的信息压缩起来的最好办法就是将之录制在唱片上.%_(,hY[V@ry,Dc]^^t。”

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唱片上信息很丰富,包含用59种语言表达的信息|GZgr.R;dB

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还有118张有关地球生活的照片,27首音乐yEhAF=YX+yxd-Uk。蒂姆·费里斯说这展示了人类创造的多样性xvUVWzOROQZu!3R

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“唱片中的音乐来自欧洲和美国,也有来自非洲、南太平洋和南美洲、格鲁吉亚、俄罗斯,还有中国和印度等国c2ty^=+pA=|c=YuL^n。”

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1968年美国宇航员从太空返回后,航天局就立即公布了一张从月亮背后看到的日出照片#j7cAZT#^HEKC9

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Margaret Weitekamp就职于史密森学会的国家航空和航天博物馆M6rR7%WSIo&oIT(。他说这张图片令法兰克·德雷克和另一位从事金唱片项目的同事—科学家兼电视明星卡尔·萨根深为感动4M3(Aw1vFe2KvfSa

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这张照片让他们仔细思考自己不仅代表美国,更代表全人类将航天器发射到太空中3vsJBq8!=XjF&HGnyn

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“认识到这张照片是人类拍下的后,我想这改变了他们的思想,让他们开始思考,‘如果我们是浩瀚宇宙微不足道的小蓝点,那么我们如何介绍自己是谁呢?’”

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对于他们选择的信息,蒂姆·费里斯说这是他们选出的最好的东西)V0_~1Y+sCDaot

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“不能说一支印度拉格、巴赫的曲子,一支尺八曲子是可以言说的东西,它们本身就是最终的作品,它们自言自身1Vv0|&[I3,。这与大自然的事物类似,一朵花并不是表达东西的方式,它自己就是终极作品,它自言其身cwn521#z5F。”

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这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道o1[YZD|0Ghj=Oi8wo,&@

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