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New Concept English
Book 3 Lesson 55
Part 1
Lead in
From the earth: Greetings
Part 2
text
(1) Recent developments in astronomy have made it possible to detect planets in our own Milky Way and in other galaxies.
單詞：astronomy n.天文學
astro-詞根表示_____________
astrology ________
astronaut _______
astrophysics __________
astronomer __________
astronomical _________
占星術
宇航員
和星星相關的
天體物理學
天文學家
天文學的
(1) Recent developments in astronomy have made it possible to detect planets in our own Milky Way and in other galaxies.
單詞：galaxy： 銀河系
詞組：Milky Way：銀河
（橫跨星空的一條乳白色亮帶）
翻譯：飛機的發明使得人們能夠環游世界。
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The invention of the aeroplane has made it possible to travel around the world.
(2) This is a major achievement because, in relative terms, planets are very small and do not emit light.
單詞：emit：v. 散發（光，熱，聲音等）
詞組：a major achievement:一個重要的成就
單詞：relative adj. 相對的
詞組：in relative terms 相對而言
翻譯：They now live in relative comfort.
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近義詞：___________
名詞：relative ：_____
他們現在過得比較舒適。
comparative
親戚
(3) Finding planets is proving hard enough, but finding life on them will prove infinitely more difficult.
單詞：infinitely adv. 無限地（尤用于比較）
翻譯：There is an infinitely bright future ahead of you young people.
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翻譯：我們的新教室比原來的舊教室要好多了。
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擴展：形容詞：_______
你們年輕人都有無限光明的前途。
Our new classroom is infinitely better than the old one.
infinite
(3) Finding planets is proving hard enough, but finding life on them will prove infinitely more difficult.
語法：finding：動名詞作主語
句型：前半句用“hard enough”,后半句則換為“infinitely more difficult”, 語氣上強烈遞進、極有氣勢，用詞豐富、不重復。
翻譯：學習一門外語已經被證明是很難的了，但同時學習三門外語則是難上加難。
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Learning a foreign language is proving hard enough, but learning three foreign languages at the same time will prove infinitely more difficult.
(4) The first question to answer is whether a planet can actually support life.
詞組：support life 維持生命
語法：
不定式作定語：
不定式與名詞構成_________。
動賓關系
(5) In our own solar system, for example, Venus is far too hot and Mars is far too cold to support life.
單詞：solar adj. 太陽的，太陽系的
solar system: _______
solar cell ___________
solar power ______
solar wind ______
月亮的：_____
陰歷：____________
翻譯：她總是給我們太多作業。
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太陽能
太陽能電池
太陽風
太陽系
lunar
lunar calendar
She always gives us far too much homework.
(5) In our own solar system, for example, Venus is far too hot and Mars is far too cold to support life.
單詞：Venus n. 金星
單詞：Mars n. 火星
太陽系的行星都是用希臘神話里面的人物名來命名的。
戰神（Mars）和愛神維納斯（Venus）在一起看起來很融洽。這里說明Venus是充滿愛的，所以用來指金星，而且金星是非常熱，表明了Venus的愛。而戰神是主管戰爭的，所以非常冷酷，而Mars火星就是非常冷的，所以我們從英文角度來理解這兩顆星星，就會比較容易了。
(6) Only the Earth provides ideal conditions, and even here it has taken more than four billion years for plant and animal life to evolve.
單詞：ideal adj. 完美的、理想的，沒有比較級、最高級
單詞：evolve v. 進化
語法：only修飾earth不用部分倒裝
(7) (Ph2) Whether a planet can support life depends on the size and brightness of its star, that is its “sun”.
詞組：depend on 取決于
語法：whether引導的________
主語從句
(8) Imagine a star up to twenty times larger, brighter and hotter than our own sun.
詞組：up to 數目上達到
e.g. I can take up to 4 people in my car.
(9) A planet would have to be a very long way from it to be capable of supporting life.
詞組：be capable of 能夠
擴展：be capable of doing sth. 能夠做某事
翻譯：知道自己仍然有能力解出高數題目還是非常的高興。
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I find it incredibly exciting to know that I‘m still capable of working out advanced mathematics problems.
(10) Alternatively, if the star were small, the life-supporting planet would have to have a close orbit round it and also provide the perfect conditions for life forms to develop.
單詞：alternatively adv.
擴展：alternative adj.& n.
語法：虛擬語氣
翻譯：要是現在沒有下雨，我就去散步。
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翻譯：如果戰爭爆發了，你會怎么做？
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If the war broke out, what would you do
If it were not raining now, I would go for a walk.
(10) Alternatively, if the star were small, the life-supporting planet would have to have a close orbit round it and also provide the perfect conditions for life forms to develop.
單詞：orbit n. 軌道
(11) But how would we find such a planet At present, there is no telescope in existence that is capable of detecting the presence of life.
單詞：telescope 天文望遠鏡
詞組：at present 目前
詞組：in existence ______
現存的
(12) The development of such a telescope will be one of the great astronomical projects of the twenty-first century.
單詞：astronomical adj.天文學的
(13) (Ph3) It is impossible to look for life on another planet using earth-based telescope.
詞組：earth-based 放置在地球上的
a Chicago-based company ____________________
總部設在芝加哥的公司
(14) Our own atmosphere and the heat generated by the telescope would make it impossible to detect objects as small as planets.
單詞：generate v. 產生
翻譯：The computer industry has generated hundreds of new jobs in the area.
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翻譯：據說，大陸板塊的移動產生了地震和火山噴發。
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擴展：_________ 一代人
計算機行業已在該地區創造出數百個新的就業機會。
generation
It is said that the movement of continental plates generates earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
(14) Our own atmosphere and the heat generated by the telescope would make it impossible to detect objects as small as planets.
語法：it做形式主語、形式賓語
翻譯：和他掙一樣多的錢是不可能的。
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It’s impossible to earn as much money as he does.
(15) Even a telescope in orbit round the earth, like the very successful Hubble telescope, would not be suitable because of the dust particles in our solar system.
單詞：particle n. 粒子，微粒
翻譯：There was not a particle of truth in what you said.
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他說的話沒半點是真的。
(16) A telescope would have to be as far away as the planet Jupiter to look for life in outer space, because the dust becomes thinner the further we travel towards the outer edge of our own solar system.
單詞：Jupiter n. 木星
翻譯：越是在空氣中暴露的時間長，石頭就越堅硬。
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The longer the stone is exposed to air, the harder it gets.
(17) Once we detected a planet, we would have to find a way of blotting out the light from its star, so that we would be able to ‘see’ the planet properly and analyse its atmosphere.
單詞：blot v. 遮暗
詞組：blot sth. out 遮蔽(尤指陽光), 記憶, 忘卻，抹掉(不快的記憶)
翻譯：火山噴發出來的氣體和灰塵遮住了陽光。
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翻譯：She had blotted out all memory of the accident.
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她已經抹去了對那次事故的所有記憶。
Gas and dust from the volcano blotted out the sun.
(17) Once we detected a planet, we would have to find a way of blotting out the light from its star, so that we would be able to ‘see’ the planet properly and analyse its atmosphere.
單詞：analyse v. 分析
翻譯：After you analyze a sentence grammatically, you should be able to understand its meaning better.
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翻譯：有些物理學家是專門分析宇宙的發展。
__________________specialized in analyzing the development of the universe.
擴展：
名詞：_______ 形容詞：_________
當你從語法上分析一個句子以后，你就能更好地理解這個句子的意義。
analysis
analytical
Some physicists are
(18) In the first instance, we would be looking for plant life, rather than “little green men”.
詞組： in the first instance 首先
翻譯：首先，我們要收集足夠的證據，而不是急于得出結果。
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In the first instance, we should collect enough evidence, rather than jumping to conclusions.
(19) The life forms most likely to develop on a planet would be bacteria.
單詞：bacteria n. 細菌
擴展：
單數：_________
virus：病毒
形容詞：________
bacteriology _______
細菌學
bacterial
bacterium
(20) It is bacteria that have generated the oxygen we breathe on earth.
單詞：oxygen n. 氧氣
語法：It is… that…_______
翻譯：正是莎士比亞寫了那么多我們至今仍在閱讀的劇本。
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強調句
It is Shakespeare that wrote so many plays we read till today.
(21) For most of the earth’s history they have been the only form of life on our planet.
(22) As Earth-dwellers, we always cherish the hope that we will be visited by little green men and that we will be able to communicate with them.
單詞：dweller 居民
翻譯：他總是存有這樣的希望：有一天他會中大獎，可以過上奢華的生活。
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He always cherishes the hope that he will win a lottery one day so that he will be able to lead an extravagant life.
(23) But this hope is always in the realms of science fiction.
翻譯：這種故事只發生在文學作品里。
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This kind of story would only happen in the realm of literature.
(24) If we were able to discover lowly forms of life like bacteria on another planet, it would completely change our view of ourselves.
單詞：lowly adj. 低微的、低級的
(25) As Daniel Goldin of NASA observed, “Finding life elsewhere would change everything. No human endeavour or thought would be unchanged by it.”
單詞：endeavour n.努力
翻譯：Please make every endeavour to arrive on time.
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翻譯：她做了一切努力來幫助他的丈夫戒賭，但是都失敗了。
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擴展：
動詞：________
近義詞： attempt（正式用語，常常含有冒險之義）
try(日常用詞，強調盡力去做，但不涉及結果)
請盡全力按時到達。
endeavour
She made her endeavour to keep her husband away from gambling, but it all failed.
(25) As Daniel Goldin of NASA observed, “Finding life elsewhere would change everything. No human endeavour or thought would be unchanged by it.”
句型：最后一句雙重否定句等于肯定句。雙重否定的運用使得句子更加漂亮。
篇章：引用名言收尾，回味無窮。
Part 4
bonus
九大行星
公轉速度
金星：地球的姐妹行星
金星又被稱作啟明星，從地球仰望星空，除了月亮第二亮的就是啟明星。
金星是一顆類地行星，因其質量與地球差不多，所以有時也被稱為地球的“姐妹星”。

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