新西兰英语 628 Stars over Tekapo
英语课
Tekapo is a special place. This small town has a big observatory 1 at Mount 2 John, 1000m above the town. It has six telescopes including New Zealand’s biggest telescope with a diameter of 1.8m, built with Japanese money. The observatory is operated by the University of Canterbury. University astronomers 3 work here with astronomers from Nagoya University, Japan.
The town of Tekapo is very careful that their street lights don’t shine upwards 4. Astronomers need a dark sky to watch the stars. Yesterday the astronomers at a conference in Tekapo learnt the news that this area in the Mackenzie country will be called a Dark Sky Reserve. The area includes Mt Cook village, Twizel and Tekapo – 4,300 square km, the biggest Dark Sky Reserve in the world. There are only four of these reserves – one in Exmoor, England, one in Quebec, Canada, one in Namibia, Africa, and now this one in the South island of New Zealand. It is also the only gold-level dark sky reserve which means it is very dark and excellent for viewing stars.
Mt John has a road up to the top. There are night tours for tourists who want to look through telescopes at the stars.
Vocabulary
diameter – 2 x radius 5; distance across a circle
operated – controlled
reserve – a protected place, like a park.
watch, view, look at stars. They all mean the same
n.天文台，气象台，瞭望台，观测台
- Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
- Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。
n.山峰，乘用马，框，衬纸；vi.增长，骑上（马）；vt.提升，爬上，装备
- Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
- She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。
n.天文学者，天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
- Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.向上，在更高处...以上
- The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
- The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。