人教版英语选修第二册 unit 1 Listening and Speaking

China Sets Record with Deep-Sea Dive

中国深海下潜创下纪录

On 27 June 2012, China became only the fifth country to send a manned submarine into the deep sea.

2012年6月27日，中国成为第五个能够将载人潜水器送入深海的国家。

when its ship, the Jiaolong, reached a depth of 7,062 metres in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench.

“蛟龙号”在太平洋马里亚纳海沟下潜至7062米深处。

Three men, Ye Cong, Liu Kaizhou, and Yang Bo, took part in this eleven-hour mission,

叶聪、刘开周、杨波三名工作人员参与了这次长达11小时的任务。

which saw them spend three hours on the ocean floor.

他们在海底停留了三小时。

While there, they collected samples and conducted research.

在海底期间，他们采集样本、开展研究。

Only two other submarines have succeeded in diving deeper into the ocean,

仅有另外两艘潜水器曾经下潜到更深的海域。

and the Jiaolong is the only manned submarine left in the world capable of working at such depths.

而蛟龙号是目前世界上唯一能够在这一深度作业的载人潜水器。

Jian Lin, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts noted that the achievement is a symbol of “China’s increasing leadership in scientific exploration of the deep ocean”.

美国马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的研究员林健表示，这一成就标志着“中国在深海科学探索领域不断提升的引领地位”。

In the future, this 8-metre-long submarine will be used for a deep-water survey of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

未来，这艘8米长的潜水器将用于太平洋、大西洋与印度洋的深水勘测。

China Creates World’s First Quantum Computing Machine

中国研制出全球首台量子计算原型机

On 3 May 2017, Chinese researchers Pan Jianwei and his colleagues announced that they had created the world’s first quantum computing machine, at a press conference in Shanghai.

2017年5月3日，中国科研人员潘建伟及其团队在上海的新闻发布会上宣布，成功研制出世界首台量子计算原型机。

At its most basic level, a regular computer processes data as a series of ones and zeros.

普通计算机最基础的运算方式，是依靠一连串的0和1处理数据。

This limits how fast it can go.

这一点限制了它的运算速度。

The Chinese quantum computing machine uses photons, which can process much more data at the same time.

中国这台量子计算原型机利用光子，能够同时处理海量数据。

This makes it much faster than regular computers.

这让它的运算速度远超普通计算机。

Indeed, the Chinese machine can process data 24,000 times quicker than regular computers.

事实上，这台设备的数据处理速度是普通计算机的24000倍。

The quantum computing machine is still under development, and they have not been able to create a fully functioning quantum computer just yet.

量子计算原型机仍处在研发阶段，人类暂时还无法制造出一台功能完备的量子计算机。

Pan reports that it may be another ten to twenty years before this dream can be realised.

潘建伟表示，实现这一目标或许还需要一二十年。

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