英语新闻听写 闯入地球的小行星—2018 LA

According to Gizmodo, "Last month, a fireball lit up the skies over Botswana just hours after scientists first spotted¹ the space rock hurtling toward Earth.

Gizmodo网站消息称，“上个月，一个火球点燃了博茨瓦纳的天空，而就在几个小时前，科学家们首次发现有宇宙岩石朝着地球飞奔而来。

Researchers from Botswana, South Africa, Finland, and the United States have now found pieces of the meteorite²."

来自博茨瓦纳、南非、芬兰以及美国的研究人员现在已经发现了陨石的碎块。”

They discovered the asteroid³ is six-foot-wide and they've named it 2018 LA.

他们发现该小行星有六英尺宽，研究人员将其命名为2018 LA。

They are currently researching its fragments to find out what the asteroid is made of.

目前他们正在研究这些碎片希望找出这个小行星是由何种物质组成。

They hope their research will help cultivate the future of asteroid mining and deflecting⁴.

他们希望他们的研究能够帮助开发小行星采矿和偏离的未来。

1 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

2 meteorite   

n.陨石；流星

参考例句：

• The meteorite in Jilin Exhibition Hall is believed to be the largest in the world.吉林展览馆的陨石被认为是世界上最大的。
• The famous Murchison meteorite smashed into the Australian ground in 1969.1969年著名的默奇森陨石轰然坠落在澳大利亚。

3 asteroid   

n.小行星；海盘车(动物)

参考例句：

• Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
• It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小，但这样的危险还是存在的。

4 deflecting   

（使）偏斜， （使）偏离， （使）转向( deflect的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• A variety of mechanical surfaces have been employed for deflecting the exhaust jets of solid-propellant rockets. 人们已经用过各种类型的机械控制面来偏转固体推进剂火箭的排气流。
• If she made a leading statement, he was expert deflecting her into more impersonal channels. 只要她一开口，他就会巧妙地把她的话题转到与个人无关的问题上去。