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1. 中英文逐句转述 

大家早上好，欢迎来到太空博物馆。

Good morning, everyone, welcome to the space museum!

在这张幻灯片上的巨大望远镜叫做哈勃太空望远镜,它于1990年4月20日由NASA发射进入太空，

The giant telescope in this slide is called the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into space by NASA on April 20, 1990  

它耗资超过10亿美金，使它成为有史以来制造的最昂贵的望远镜。

It cost over a billion dollars, making it the most expensive telescope ever built.  【ever built = that has ever been built】

但是，费用昂贵不意味着它就是完美的。

However, being costly doesn’t mean it is perfect.

事实上,就从一开始，哈勃望远镜就遇上了问题。

In fact, there were problems with the Hubble from the very beginning.

由于它的主镜的一个缺陷，它给我们传回的照片质量远低于预期，这让科学家们非常失望。

Because of a flaw in its primary mirror, the quality of the pictures it sent us was much lower than expected, making scientists very disappointed.

国家航空航天局已经计划了一次维修任务对望远镜进行校正，很快将由奋进号航天飞机把4名宇航员送入太空开展修复工作。

NASA has now scheduled a repair mission to put the telescope right and will soon be sending up four astronauts in the space shuttle Endeavour to repair it.

在太空里宇航员将如何修复哈勃望远镜呢？

How are the astronauts going to fix the Hubble?

由于哈勃已经在太空中，这个修复工作绝非轻而易举。

With the Hubble already in space, this repair won’t come easy.

【注意：With the Hubble already in space =With the Hubble（being）already in space；This repair won’t come easy = The repair is no easy job】

根据计划，奋进号上的一个机械臂将抓住望远镜并且托住它，与此同时宇航员进行太空行走从而完成必要的修复工作。

According to the plan, a giant robot-arm from the Endeavour will grab the Hubble and hold it , while the astronauts take spacewalks and make the necessary repairs.

你们中可能有些人会问，既然我们有很多望远镜在地球上，为啥还要费劲地把一个望远镜放在太空里？

Some of you may ask: why bother putting a telescope in space when we have so many telescopes here on earth?

这是因为在地球大气之外没有干扰，这样太空望远镜可以比地面上的望远镜收集到更加清晰的照片。

Well, that is because there is no interference above the earth’s atmosphere, so telescopes in space are able to collect much sharper images than the ones we have here on the ground.

【interference n.干扰sharp adj.清晰的 If you say a picture is sharp, you can see all the details clearly.】

如果维修任务顺利的话，哈勃望远镜将在太空中拥有一只鹰眼。

If the repair mission goes well, the Hubble will have an eagle eye in space.

它将很快为我们传送来人类见到过的最清晰的关于恒星和星系的照片。

It will soon be sending us the clearest images of the stars and distant galaxies that human beings have ever seen.

那些图像将会告诉我们关于宇宙年龄和大小的很多信息，并且将解开困扰科学家几个世纪的许多谜团。

Those images will tell us a lot about the age and the size of the universe, and will solve many mysteries that have been baffling to scientists for centuries .

等你们明年再次参观我们的太空博物馆，我们将已经收到成千上万张来自哈勃的精彩图片。

When you visit our space museum next year, we will have received thousands and thousands of fantastic pictures from the Hubble.

你们一定会被那些叹为观止的图片震撼的。

I am sure that you will be amazed by the breathtaking pictures.

感谢你们的聆听，期待你们下次光临。

Thanks for listening and I am looking forward to your visit next time.

2. 全英文转述 

Good morning, everyone, welcome to the space museum!

The giant telescope in this slide is called the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into space by NASA on April 20, 1990. It cost over a billion dollars, making it the most expensive telescope ever built.   

However, being costly doesn’t mean it is perfect.

In fact, there were problems with the Hubble from the very beginning. Because of a flaw in its primary mirror, the quality of the pictures it sent us was much lower than expected, making scientists very disappointed. NASA has now scheduled a repair mission to put the telescope right and will soon be sending up four astronauts in the space shuttle Endeavour to repair it.

How are the astronauts going to fix the Hubble?

With the Hubble already in space, this repair won’t come easy. According to the plan, a giant robot-arm from the Endeavour will grab the Hubble and hold it, while the astronauts take spacewalks and make the necessary repairs.

Some of you may ask: why bother putting a telescope in space when we have so many telescopes here on earth?

Well, that is because there is no interference above the earth’s atmosphere, so telescopes in space are able to collect much sharper images than the ones we have here on the ground. If the repair mission goes well, the Hubble will have an eagle eye in space. It will soon be sending us the clearest images of the stars and distant galaxies that human beings have ever seen.

Those images will tell us a lot about the age and the size of the universe, and will solve many mysteries that have been baffling to scientists for centuries.When you visit our space museum next year, we will have received thousands and thousands of fantastic pictures from the Hubble. I am sure that you will be amazed by the breathtaking pictures.

Thanks for listening and I am looking forward to your visit next time.

3. 东欣点评 

【拓展】Hubble望远镜对人类意味着什么？

Interesting Facts about the Hubble :

Hubble is 13.3 meters (43.5 feet) long—the length of a large school bus.

Hubble is about 24,000 pounds (10,886 kg).

Hubble can spot a night light on the surface of the Moon from Earth.

Hubble has peered back into the very distant past, to locations more than 13.4 billion light-years from Earth.

哈勃望远镜对于人类到底有什么意义？

东欣老师和大家分享一篇来自NASA网站的文章，作为本课拓展阅读：

本文难度高于课文（大概高30%），但是文章写得非常好。

From the dawn of humankind to a mere 400 years ago, all that we knew about our universe came through observations with the naked eye.

Then Galileo turned his telescope toward the heavens in 1610. The world was in for an awakening.【注: be in for... = be certain to have sth. : They are in for a difficult time. 】

Saturn, we learned, had rings. Jupiter had moons.

That nebulous patch across the center of the sky called the Milky Way was not a cloud but a collection of countless stars. Within but a few years, our notion of the natural world would be forever changed. A scientific and societal revolution quickly ensued.

Hubble, the observatory, is the first major optical（光学）telescope to be placed in space, the ultimate mountaintop. Above the distortion of the atmosphere, far far above rain clouds and light pollution, Hubble has an unobstructed （没有阻碍）view of the universe.

Scientists have used Hubble to observe the most distant stars and galaxies as well as the planets in our solar system. Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope.

Thanks to Hubble, our view of the universe and our place within it has never been the same.