【英语时差8,16】欺骗苏联科学家的“外星人”（上）

“Aliens,we found aliens!” Well, that’s kinda what Soviet¹ radio astronomers² said back in the early nineteen sixties, anyway. They held a press conference to announce that they had been listening in on an alien civilization that was broadcasting radio signals into space. These signals were of unbelievable power and went up and down in frequency with a period of roughly one hundred days. Nobody had ever seen – or heard anything like that before. It had to be evidence of intelligent beings with fantastically advanced technology. Maybe they were sending us a signal! Sadly, that hypothesis³ turned out to be wrong, and the Soviet radio astronomers probably felt kind of silly after making their announcement.

1 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

2 astronomers   

n.天文学者，天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 hypothesis   

n.假说，假设，(无根据的)猜测，揣测

参考例句：

• We have proved the hypothesis.我们已经证明了这种假设。
• The results confirmed his hypothesis on the use of modal verbs.结果证实了他的关于情态动词用法的假设。