VOA慢速英语 哈勃改变了我们对宇宙的概念

　　Hubble's work led to new research on the birth of the universe. One astronomer said scientists have been filling in the details ever since. And, he said, there is a long way to go.

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　　This Special English program was written by Marilyn Rice Christiano. Your narrators were Richard Rael and Tony Riggs. Listen again next week for another EXPLORATIONS program on the Voice of America.

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　　Hubble was a good student. He was a good athlete, too. He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in nineteen-oh-nine. He also was an excellent boxer. Several people urged him to train for the world heavyweight boxing championship after college. Instead, he decided to continue his studies. He went to Queen's College at Oxford, England.

　　哈勃是一个好学生，也是一个好的运动员。他是1909年芝加哥大学冠军赛篮球队的队员。他也是一个优秀的拳击手。几个人催他毕业后为世界重量级拳击冠军赛进行训练。而他却决定继续学习。他去了英国牛津大学皇后学院。

　　The astronomical term "nebulae", Hubble explained, had come down through the centuries. It was the name given to permanent, cloudy areas in the sky outside our solar system. Some astronomers thought nebulae were part of our Milky Way Galaxy. Others thought they were island universes farther away in space.