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这是一直夫妇的第 914 篇文章

2025 年 1 月 15 日，马斯克旗下公司 SpaceX 发射了猎鹰 9 号火箭，但任务完成后，火箭第二级已没有足够的推进能力改变轨道。这枚火箭的第二级残骸在太空漂浮一年多后，最终以约每小时 8690 公里的速度撞击月球。科学家估计，火箭撞击产生的爆炸威力相当于 1.5 万根炸药棒。

A four-tonne piece of a discarded SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon at high speed, in a collision that posed no danger to Earth but was expected to blast out a new lunar crater.

1️⃣ pose no danger to sb/sth

金牌写作短语

pose 在这儿不是「姿势」，而是动词，表示 to exist in a way that may cause a problem, danger, difficulty etc「造成，引起」问题、危险、困难等。比如外刊中常用短语 pose a threat 就是「构成威胁」。 pose no danger to sb/sth 便是「不会对某人或某物造成危险」。2024 年英二阅读正巧考过这个短语。

Avoiding dangers posed by all those human drivers would require too many algorithms, she said.

她说，要避开所有那些人类驾驶员所造成的危险，就需要设计过多的算法。

The rocket body ⁠was due to hit the moon about 6.35am BST, crashing into its surface at 5,400mph (8,690 km/h). The impact was predicted to kick up a miles-long plume of lunar dust that, although illuminated by sunlight, would be difficult ⁠to spot with the naked eye from Earth.

2️⃣ illuminate

考研词汇

lumin- 来自拉丁语，意思是「光，光源」。比如 luminous「发光的；明亮的」。所以 illuminate 表示「照明」。除此之外，它还有 to make something much clearer and easier to understand「阐明，解释」的意思。去年 12 月的六级段落匹配刚考过。

Alternately, you could also seek out hard data that illuminates your real chance of success in whatever endeavor you are contemplating.

或者，你也可以寻找可靠的客观数据，弄清楚自己在所考虑从事的任何事情上究竟有多大成功的可能。

US and South Korean lunar satellites will be positioned to photograph the site after impact but it may take days to receive that information.

3️⃣ be positioned to do sth

熟词生义

这里的 position 是动词，表示 to put somebody/something in a particular position「安置」。原文 be positioned to photograph the site 是说卫星「将被部署到适合拍摄该地点的位置」。

第二，这个短语还表示「具备做某事的条件」。2024 年 12 月六级的段落匹配用到了本文中的义项，但不能直接套用词典「安置」这个释义，而是应把它翻译成「处于」。

We cannot see the moon at times when it is positioned right between the earth and the sun.

当月球正好位于地球和太阳之间时，我们看不见月球。

Bill Gray, the creator of a widely used piece of astronomy software who published a report on the stage’s impact in April, said: “This may be of some–probably minor–scientific interest, and we may learn some things from it.

“It doesn’t present any danger to anyone, though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware [space junk] is disposed of.”

4️⃣ dispose of

金牌写作短语

这是一个常用短语，表示「丢弃，处理」，尤指难以处理的东西，比如 dispose of toxic waste「处理有毒废料」。我们有时可用它代替 throw，discard，get rid of 等。

第二，它还表示 to deal with something such as a problem or question successfully「处理，解决」，所以干嘛还要用 solve, deal with，用上新短语吧。

Your idea at least disposes of the immediate problem.

你的主意至少解决了最迫切的问题。

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