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1-- guess what! I know something you don't know!
2-- what's that?
1-- how many planets are there in the solar system?
2-- that's easy. Everyone knows that there are nice.
1-- not anymore! Can you believe it? They've decided that Pluto is not a planet anymore!
2-- nice try. I wasn't born yesterday, you know.
1-- I'm dead serious. They've decided that it's too small to be a planet, but actually they haven't yet agreed on how big something has to be in order to be a planet anymore.
2-- that sounds crazy. They can't just change their mind about things like that.
1-- yes, they can. If you remember correctly, people used to believe that the world was flat.
2-- I suppose you're right. They also used to think that they were so important that the sun revolved around them, not the other way around.
1-- we actually know relatively little about space and the cosmos.
2-- do you think that we'll one day be able to travel to another planet for a vacation?
1-- I suppose we could actually live on a planet outside of the milky way.
2-- do you think we'll ever get to meet an alien from outer space?
1-- I hope not. I think they would be a threat to those of us that lived on Earth.
2-- you're so old-fashioned. That's what people used to think about people from another country!
1-- point taken. Hopefully one day, we'll live in an interplanetary society.
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注解:
1.complain抱怨
2.booming興旺的
3.schedule安排
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譯文:
1--你猜怎么找?我知道一些你不知道的事!
2--什么事?
1--你知道太陽系有多少行星嗎?
2--很簡單,大家都知道有九大行星.
1--現(xiàn)在可不是啦!你相信嗎?他們決定取消冥王星的行星資格了.
2--想得美.別哄我了,我又不是三歲小孩.
1--我是認(rèn)真的.他們認(rèn)為冥王星太小了,不夠做行星的資格,不過他們尚未對行星的體積究竟該有多大達(dá)成一致的意見.
2--這聽起來簡直是瘋了!他們不能對這種事情隨便亂改主意.
1--是的,他們可以.如果你還記得的話,以前人們曾經(jīng)以為地球是平的.
2--我覺得你說得有道理.他們過去還認(rèn)為人類是特別重要的,以至于太陽都是圍繞著我們轉(zhuǎn)的,不存在其他運(yùn)行的方式.
1--可能我們隊(duì)空間和宇宙的了解只是非常有限的一點(diǎn)點(diǎn).
2--你覺得未來我們有可能去其他星球度假嗎?
1--我想我們可以居住在銀河系以外的其他星球上.
2--你覺得咱們會在外太空遇到外星人嗎?
1--我希望不會.我覺得他們可能對生活在地球上的人類是一種威脅.
2--你的思想可太老派了.這就好像人們以前對外國人的看法一樣!
1--知道啦.希望未來有一天,我們能生活在一個(gè)行星際的社會里.