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BBut we"ve never lost an astronaut in fiight.

但我们从没有失去过在飞行当中牺牲的宇航员。

in fight 在句中表示“在飞行中”。

CThey had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths.

他们对探索宇宙和发现真理充满了渴望。

have a hunger for 渴望。例如:He has a hunger for adventure.他渴望冒险。

27.Space Program Will Continue(2)太空计划仍要继续(2)

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挑战者号全体成员的勇敢与奉献精神让我们颇为感动,他们的勇敢会带动我们走向未来,延续着他们的脚步前进。让我们永远记住那一刻他们“脱离了阴沉的大地束缚,触摸了上帝的脸庞”。

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And I want to say something to the school children of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle"s take-off.I know it"s hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen.It"s all part of the process of exploration and discovery.AIt"s all part of taking a chance and expanding man"s horizons.The future doesn"t belong to the fainthearted;it belongs to the brave.The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we"ll continue to follow them.

BI"ve always had great faith in and respect for our space program. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it.We don"t hide our space program.CWe don"t keep secrets and cover things up.We do it all up front and in public.That"s the way freedom is, and we wouldn"t change it for a minute.

We"ll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space.Nothing ends here;our hopes and our journeys continue.

I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA, or who worked on this mission and tell them:“Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish.We share it.”

There"s a coincidence today. On this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama.In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said,“He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.”Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew:Their dedication was, like Drake"s, complete.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and“slipped the surly bonds of earth”to“touch the face of God.”

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AIt"s all part of taking a chance and expanding man"s horizons.

这是不畏艰险,开拓人类视野的组成部分。

take a chance冒险,碰运气。例如:He intends to take a chance on house racing.他打算在赛马上碰碰运气。

BI"ve always had great faith in and respect for our space program.

我一直对我们的太空计划充满了信心和敬意。

have faith in对……有信心。He has faith in his son"s abilities.他对儿子的能力有信心。

CWe don"t keep secrets and cover things up.

我们没有秘密,也不遮盖事实。

cover sth. up 掩盖。例如:The government is trying to cover up the scandal.政府企图掩盖这件丑事。

28.Work Together for Peace(1)为和平共同努力(1)

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美国第39任总统詹姆斯·厄尔·卡特在2002年被授予了诺贝尔和平奖,以表彰他为寻求和平解决国家冲突所作出的不懈努力。我们是否也应该像他一样发出追求世界和平的呐喊呢?

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It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I accept this prize.I am grateful to my wife Rosalynn, to my colleagues at The Carter Center, and to many others who continue to seek an end to violence and suffering throughout the world.AThe scope and character of our Center"s activities are perhaps unique, but in many other ways they are typical of the work being done by many hundreds of nongovernmental organizations that strive for human rights and peace.BMost Nobel laureates have carried out our work in safety, but there are others who have acted with great personal courage.None has provided more vivid reminders of the dangers of peacemaking than two of my friends, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, who gave their lives for the cause of peace in the Middle East.

Like these two heroes, my first chosen career was in the military, as a submarine officer. My shipmates and I realized that we had to be ready to fight if combat was forced upon us, and we were prepared to give our lives to defend our nation and its principles.At the same time, we always prayed fervently that our readiness would ensure that there would be no war.

CLater, as president and as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, I was one of those who bore the sobering responsibility of maintaining global stability during the height of the Cold War, as the world"s two superpowers confronted each other.

Both sides understood that an unresolved political altercation or a serious misjudgment could lead to a nuclear holocaust. ln Washington and in Moscow, we knew that we would have less than a half hour to respond after we learned that intercontinental missiles had been launched against us.There had to be a constant and delicate balancing of our great military strength with aggressive diplomacy, always seeking to build friendships with other nations, large and small, that shared a common cause.

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AThe scope and character of our Center"s activities are perhaps unique, but in many other ways they are typical of the work being done by many hundreds of nongovernmental organizations that strive for human rights and peace.

我们中心各种工作的范围和特点可能是唯一的,但在许多其他方面,都是在许多数以百计的非政府组织开展的争取人权和和平的工作中具有代表性的。

typical of有代表性的。例如:It was typical of her to forget.她这人就是爱忘事。

BMost Nobel laureates have carried out our work in safety, but there are others who have acted with great personal courage.

大多数诺贝尔和平奖获得者可以安全地从事我们的工作,但是也有一些人在工作中表现出巨大的个人勇气。

carry out 进行试验等,完成。例如:Extensive tests have been carried out on the patient.对患者进行了多次试验。