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5. Blast
俚语，指“令人极兴奋或愉快的经历、事件或热闹聚会”。
6. Out of someone's hair
首先来说说这个片语的反义词：in someone's hair，想想看，如果有东西在你的头发里，你是什么感觉？In one’s hair 的意思就是“annoying or bothering someone 烦扰某人”，例如：She was constantly in my hair, overseeing everything I did．
那么，out of one’s hair 就是叫“别人不要烦你”了。如果有人烦你，你就可以这么说：Get out of my hair!
7. Miss out
Miss out 指“错失机会”，例如：She always misses out, because she's never there.
这个片语常和on连用，表示“错过了……”例如：Ruth came late to the party and missed out on all the fun.
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Apollo Lunar Module 阿波罗登月舱
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| Apollo LM on lunar surface |
The Apollo Lunar Module was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program to achieve the transit from moon orbit to the surface and back. The module was also known as the LM from the manufacturer designation (yet pronounced "LEM" from NASA's early name for it, Lunar Excursion Module).
The 6.65 m³ module was designed to carry a crew of two. The total module was 6.4 m high and 4.3 m across, resting on four legs. It consisted of two stages — the descent stage module and the ascent stage. The total mass of the module was 15,264 kg with the majority of that (10,334 kg) in the descent stage.
The Apollo Lunar Module came into being because NASA chose to reach the moon via a lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) instead of a direct ascent or Earth orbit rendezvous (EOR). Both a direct ascent and an EOR would have involved the entire Apollo spacecraft landing on the moon; once the decision had been made to proceed using LOR, it became necessary to produce a separate craft capable of reaching the lunar surface.
The LM contract was given to Grumman Aircraft Engineering and a number of subcontractors. Grumman had begun lunar orbit rendezvous studies in late 1950s and again in 1962. In July 1962 eleven firms were invited to submit proposals for the LM. Nine did so in September, and Grumman was awarded the contract that same month. The contract cost was expected to be around $350 million. There were initially four major subcontractors — Bell Aerosystems (ascent engine), Hamilton Standard (environmental control systems), Marquardt (reaction control system) and Rocketdyne (descent engine).
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| Apollo Spacecraft: Apollo Lunar Module Diagram |
The primary guidance, navigation and control system (PGNCS基本导航、飞行与控制系统) on the LM was developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (麻省理工学院仪表实验室). The Apollo Guidance Computer (导航计算机) was manufactured by Raytheon (雷神公司). A similar guidance system was used in the Command Module. A backup navigation tool, the Abort Guidance System (AGS (航天器初级引导系统出故障时启用的)中断飞行引导系统), was developed by TRW (Thompson Ramo Wooldrige Inc).
影片对白 It's 18 months to the end of the decade and we still haven't had a single manned Apollo flight.
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