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de for miles around. 1)a short time before,不久之前。相當(dāng)于firefighter。 2)eagle eye,鷹眼。 3)galaxy,銀河系?! f course, the Hubble is above the earth’s atmosphere, so it will soon be sending us the clearest pictures of the stars and distant galaxies that we have ever seen. 1)atmosphere,大氣層?! robotarm from the Endeavour will grab the telescope and hold it while the astronauts make the necessary repairs. 1)robotarm,機(jī)械臂。 The shuttle Endeavour will be taking the astronauts to the Hubble. 1)shuttle,航天飛機(jī)?! ASA is going to put the telescope right, so it will soon be sending up four astronauts to repair it. 1)put...right,矯正、校正。 2)注意使役動(dòng)詞disappoint的現(xiàn)在分詞和過(guò)去分詞形容詞化后的區(qū)別,即disappointing表示令人失望的,而disappointed表示感到失望的。 5)課文中提到的哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的花費(fèi)不準(zhǔn)確,其實(shí)際造價(jià)和因?yàn)榘l(fā)射日期延誤導(dǎo)致的額外維護(hù)成本共高達(dá)15億美元。課文里提到的發(fā)射日期有誤,應(yīng)該是1990年4月24日。如: I will be writing letters all day tomorrow. Soon the astronauts will have repaired the telescope. By Friday midday, they will have been working on it for seven days. 課文主要語(yǔ)言點(diǎn) The Hubble telescope was launched into space by NASA on April 20, 1990 at a cost of over a billion dollars. 1)The Hubble telescope,哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡。 4)at a cost of,花費(fèi)多少錢或代價(jià)?! he pictures it sent us were very disappointing because its main mirror was faulty! 1)注意it sent us用作pictures的定語(yǔ)從句,it前面省略了關(guān)系代詞that或which。源自