2020.10.19考研英语外刊“马桶自由”成真!NASA为女宇航员造了…(2020.10.27中国什么号载人潜水器)
2020.10.19考研英语外刊“马桶自由”成真!NASA为女宇航员造了…(2020.10.27中国什么号载人潜水器)
buzz aldrin remembers feeling “buoyant” and “full of goose pimples” when he stepped onto the moon in 1969, becoming the second person to touch the surface of another world. the view was magnificent. the first thing he did was examine the ground beneath his boots. “i immediately looked down at my feet and became intrigued with the peculiar properties of the lunar dust,” the apollo astronaut recalled in one of his memoirs.
the second thing he did was pee.
aldrin, the first person to urinate on the moon (into a special collection device worn around his waist) is one of hundreds of astronauts who, in between doing extraordinary things, have done the most mundane thing. in the nearly 60 years since human beings first went to space, engineers have worked carefully on the technology inside spacesuits, shuttles, and capsules to accommodate this very earthly act, and the effort continues today: astronauts are preparing to install a brand-new toilet on the international space station soon.
the most important new feature is the one that allows astronauts to do something that the rest of us mostly take for granted on earth. there’s no artful way to put this, so i’m just going to say it: the current toilets on the international space station aren’t conducive to peeing and pooping at the same time. this matters more for the women in the astronaut corps, for whom the two bodily functions can be trickier to separate.
文本选自：the atlantic（大西洋月刊）作者：marina koren原文标题：nasa finally made a toilet for women原文发布时间：13 oct. 2020
翻译卡 ?美国宇航局终于造出了女性马桶
巴兹·奥尔德林记得，1969年登上月球时，他感到“轻松愉快”，并且“浑身起鸡皮疙瘩”，成为第二个到达另一个世界表面的人。月球的景色很壮观。他做的第一件事就是检查他太空靴下面的地面。“我立刻低头看着自己的脚，对月球尘埃的特殊特性产生了兴趣，”这位阿波罗宇航员在他的一本回忆录中回忆道。他做的第二件事就是小便。
奥尔德林是第一个在月球上小便的人（通过佩戴在他腰间的特殊收集装置来完成），他是数百名宇航员中的一员，这些宇航员在做非凡的事情的同时，也做了最平凡的事情。在人类首次进入太空后的近60年里，工程师们一直在仔细研究太空服、航天飞机和太空舱内部的技术，以适应这种地球上的行为，这种努力一直持续到今天：宇航员们正准备很快在国际空间站上安装一个全新的马桶。
最重要的新功能是允许宇航员做一些我们在地球上大多数人认为理所当然的事情。没有什么巧妙的方法来表达这一点，所以我只想说：目前国际空间站上的马桶并不利于同时大小便。这对宇航员中的女性来说更为重要，因为女性的这两种身体机能更难分开。