广播电视英语短句 第 31 课：你不必成为专家-4

Moving pictures from before World War Two showed a man named Buck Rogers landing on the planet Mars. 在二战以前的一些动画显示了一个名叫 Buck Rogers的人在火星上登陆。

He was a hero who could defeat any enemy from outer space.
他是一位打败来自外来空间敌人的英雄。

The rocket scientist is a different kind of hero. He or she makes space travel possible. 火箭科学家是一种非一般意义上的英雄。他或她使太空旅行成为可能。

Rocket scientists, however, can have problems just like everyone else. 然而，火箭科学家也会像平常人一样遇到些问题。

A Washington rocket scientist tells about a launch that was postponed many, many times. 一位华盛顿州的火箭科学家说，有一次火箭发射被推迟了很多很多次。

Finally, everything seemed right. Mechanical failures had been repaired. The weather was good. 最后，一切看起来正常。机械制作上错误已被修复。天气也很好。