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JUDY WOODRUFF: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins died today after battling cancer. In 1969, he stayed in lunar orbit alone for more than 20 hours, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first landing on the moon. Collins said he had no regrets. He said he was focused instead on making sure that his crewmates could return home. During the 50th anniversary of that, Collins told Miles O'Brien that he was mesmerized by our planet.
MILES O'BRIEN: On their ride back home, they marveled at our perch in the universe. The moon was their destination, but, for Collins, the real discovery was Earth itself.
MICHAEL COLLINS, Former NASA Astronaut: All right, I have got the world in my window for a change. The moon was nothing compared to my view of home planet. It was it. It was the main chance. I would look out the window, and there would be a tiny little thing. You could obscure it with your thumb. But every time you put it away somewhere, it would pop out. It wanted you to look at it. It wanted to be seen. It was gorgeous. It was tiny, shiny, the blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, little streak of rust color that we call continents. It just glowed. Having gone out 240,000 miles and seeing it gives me a much greater sense of fragility, a much greater urge to do something to protect that fragility as we go along.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Such a great memory. Michael Collins was 90 years old.
重点解析
1.orbit 轨道
The two spacecraft will link up in orbit.
两艘宇宙飞船将在轨道上对接。
2.obscure 使……模糊不清
The view was obscured by fog.
雾中景色朦胧。
3.fragility 脆弱
There is still great fragility in the financial systems.
金融系统仍将很脆弱。
4.anniversary 周年纪念日
A grand art and cultural show would be held in our school with the aim of celebrating the 70th anniversary of our motherland.
我们学校将会举行一场盛大的文艺表演以庆祝祖国母亲70周年生日。
5.mesmerize 施催眠术，迷住
I can feel that you mesmerize my heart.
我能感受到你在蛊惑我的心智。
参考译文
朱迪·伍德乐夫：阿波罗11号宇航员迈克尔·柯林斯在与癌症抗争后于今天去世。1969年，当尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和巴兹·奥尔德林首次在月球上着陆时，他独自在月球轨道上停留了20多个小时。柯林斯说他不后悔。他说自己现在专注于确保队友能够返回家园。在50周年纪念时，柯林斯告诉迈尔斯·奥布莱恩，他被我们的星球迷住了。
欧布赖恩：在他们返回地球的路上，他们惊叹于我们在宇宙中的地位。月球是他们的目的地，但对柯林斯来说，真正的发现是地球本身。
迈克尔·柯林斯，前美国宇航局宇航员：是的，世界就在我窗前，我想改变一下。和我的家乡相比，月球根本不算什么，这就是它。这是一次难得的机会。我看向窗外，会有一件小小的事情，你可以用拇指把它弄模糊。但每次你把它放在某个地方，它就会跳出来。它想让你看看，它想被人看见，它是美丽的。它很小，闪闪发光，蓝色的海洋，白色的云，小小的铁锈色条纹，我们称之为大陆。它只是闪闪发光。走了24万英里，看到它让我有一种更强烈的脆弱感、更强烈的冲动去做些什么来保护这种脆弱。
朱迪·伍德乐夫：如此美好的回忆。迈克尔·柯林斯享年90岁。
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