（外刊精选）India Launches Rocket

本文为自译，做得不好的地方请指教! Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Friday, India time, two 80-foot-high rocket boosters roared to life and hurtled into the clouds above the Bay of Bengal, carrying with them India's renewed dreams of becoming the fourth nation to land a rover on the moon. hurtle-猛冲 rover-漫游者 印度时间周五下午2点30分，两架80英尺高的火箭助推器轰鸣起来，冲入孟加拉湾上空的云层，承载着印度成为第四个登陆月球着陆国的梦想。 The Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) said Friday afternoon that the Chandrayaan-3mission had launched successfully and the rocket had entered "precise orbit."The vessel is now scheduled to travel for more than a month in orbit and then land at the moon's south pole on Aug.23. pole-极；极端

印度空间研究组织(ISRO)周五下午表示，月船3号任务已经成功发射，火箭已经进入精确的轨道。该飞船目前计划在轨道上飞行一个多月，然后于8月23日在月球南极着陆。

If the Chandrayaan's four-legged craft sticks its landing, it will deploy a 60-pound, solar-powered rover to scour the lunar surface for two weeks. It would also catapult India into a small group of countries, consisting of the United States, Russia and China,that have managed the feat. deploy-部署 scour-四处搜索 feat-功绩 如果月船号的四轴飞行器成功着陆，它将部署一个60磅重的太阳能漫游车，在月球表面搜寻两周。这也将使印度迅速完成成为由美国、俄罗斯和中国组成的少数几个拥有此壮举的国家之一的功绩。 While a million people tuned in on YouTube to watch the liftoff from Sriharikota island on India's southeastern coast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi,who is on an official trip in France, celebrated the successful launch as a "new chapter in India's space odyssey." odyssey-长途旅行 有100万人在油管上观看了来自印度斯里哈里科塔岛的起飞过程，当时纳伦德拉总理莫迪正在去法国的旅途中，他庆祝成功发射是“印度太空之旅的新篇章”。 The $77 million Chandrayaan-3 mission, meaning "moon craft" in Sanskrit,will be India's second attempt after the Chandrayaan-2,launched in July 2019, crashed on the moon's surface on Sept.6,2019 as a result of what ISRO officials said was a thruster malfunction and software issue during landing. thruster-推进器 malfunction-故障 耗资7700万美元的“月艇3号”任务，梵语为“月球飞船”，这将是印度在2019年7月继发射的月艇于2019年9月6日于2019年在月球表面坠毁后的第二次尝试，上次的原因据说是在着陆期间出现推进器故障和软件问题。 Despite its decades-long struggle to shed its status as a lower-middle-income country, India has long punched above its weight in space technology,thanks to government support of the space program reaching back to the 1960s. India launched its first rocket in 1963 and put its first homegrown satellite into orbit in 1980. From 2014 to 2022, India had a space probe orbiting Mars until the Mangalyaan orbiter lost contact with ISRO ground stations. homegrown-本国制造 probe-探索 orbiter-轨道飞行器 数十年来，印度一直都在努力摆脱其中低收入国家的标签，由于政府自20世纪60年代以来对太空项目予以支持，印度在太空技术领域也勉力谋求发展。印度于1963年发射了第一枚火箭，在1980年把第一颗国产卫星送入轨道。从2014年到2022年，印度拥有一个绕火星运行的太空探测器“曼加里安号”，但后来该轨道飞行器与印度空间研究组织地面站失联。 Through it all, India's space program,a source of national pride,often leaned into its reputation as being ambitious, resourceful — and scrappy. In 1981,ISRO engineers famously showed off its new satellite on a wooden cart, pulled by a white bull.Today, ISRO works with a roughly $1.5billion annual budget, lagging far behind the $25 billion allocated to NASA and the $12 billion budgeted for the Chinese space agency. But it's planning to send humans to space in the next two years,becoming only the fourth country to independently do so. scrappy-斗志旺盛的 lag-落后 在所有的一切中，印度的太空计划是印度的民族自豪感的来源，经常以其雄心勃勃、足智多谋和斗志旺盛而闻名。1981年，印度空间研究组织的工程师们在一辆由白牛拉着的木车上展示了他们的新卫星。如今，印度空间研的年度预算约为15亿美元，远远落后于美国国家航空航天局的250亿美元和中国航天局的120亿美元。但它计划在未来两年内将人类送入太空，成为第四个独立进入太空的国家。