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课件网) Shenzhou-12 Astronauts Return to Earth after 3-month Space Station Mission 神舟十二号航天员完成3个月空间站任务后返回地球 Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sept.17 after completing the first crewed mission aboard the Tianhe space station module. 9月17日，三名中国航天员在中国空间站天和核心舱完成首次载人任务后安全返回地球。 astronaut 航天员 crewed mission 载人任务 新闻时事 Commander Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo touched down inside the designated landing zone near Dongfeng in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, at around 1:34 a.m. Eastern Friday. 指令长聂海胜、刘伯明和汤洪波于美国东部时间周五凌晨1点34分在内蒙古戈壁沙漠东风附近的指定着陆区着陆。 commander n 负责人 [command 命令 + -er] touch down （飞机、航天器等）着陆；降落 designated adj 指定的 [designate 指定 + -ed] The main, 1,200-square-meter parachute opened around 10 kilometers above the ground, with the heat shield jettisoned (脱落) at around 5.5 kilometers up. The landing occurred within the time and area indicated by airspace closure notices issued earlier in the week. Ground search and rescue teams swiftly located and secured the capsule after touchdown. 主降落伞面积为1,200平方米，在离地面约10千米的地方打开，隔热板在离地面约5.5千米处脱落。着陆的时间和地点均在本周早些时候发布的空域关闭通知指示内。着陆后，地面搜救队迅速定位到太空舱，并对其实施了保护措施。 shield n （保护机器和操作者的）护罩；挡板 [shield还有“盾牌”之意] indicate v 指示；指出 closure n 暂时封闭 [close关闭 + -ure名词后缀] secure v [形容词动化] 保护；保卫 capsule n 太空舱；航天舱 [capsule还有“胶囊”之意，想一想它和“太空舱”之间有什么联系？] touchdown n 着陆；降落；接地 [touch + down] The Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center declared the Shenzhou-12 a “complete success.” 北京航天飞行控制中心宣布神舟十二号航天任务“圆满成功”。 declare 宣布 complete 完全的；完成 The three Shenzhou-12 astronauts had on Wednesday completed a 90-day stay aboard the core module for China’s under-construction space station. The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft separated from the Tianhe module then carried out circumnavigation (环绕……航行) of Tianhe and a radial (辐射状的) rendezvous (约会) test. China Space News reported that Shenzhou-12 approached as close as 19 meters from Tianhe. 三名神舟十二号航天员于周三完成了在中国在建空间站的核心舱上驻留90天的任务。与天和核心舱分离的神舟十二号飞船随后进行了环天和绕飞和径向交会试验。据《中国航天报》报道，神舟十二号与天和核心舱距离最近时仅为19米。 under-construction adj 在建设中的 [under- + construction] approach v [学术词] （在距离或时间上）靠近 Shenzhou-12 included the verification of regenerative life support systems aboard Tianhe, installation of equipment for future missions, 1._____(numer) experiments, Earth imagery and two extravehicular (舱外的) 2._____(activity). 3._____ mission also set a new national human spaceflight duration record of just over 92 days and four hours.The landing 4._____(take）place in a new de ... ...
