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2023/03/20
TIME閱讀解析 05-任何希望外星人接觸地球的人，少說得再等個四百年
Anyone Hoping for Aliens to Contact Earth
Will Have to Wait Another 400 Years At Least
任何希望外星人接觸地球的人，少說得再等個四百年
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Nobody knows for certain what the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi did or didn’t say at the lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that took place in 1950. But as the perhaps apocryphal story has it, Fermi was holding forth on the sheer number of stars in the sky and the sheer number of intelligent civilizations the planets orbiting them might harbor, and puzzling out why we’ve never seen or heard any sign of them.
“Where is everybody?” Fermi is said to have asked.
By Jeffery Kluger December 21, 2022 1:28 PM EST
全文連結：https://time.com/6242921/why-extraterrestrials-havent-contacted-earth/
單字
1. civilization n. 文明
Sumer has constantly been regarded as one of the symbolic civilizations in the ancient world.
蘇美文明向來被視為古代世界象徵性的文明之一。
2. orbit vt. 圍繞（星體）運行
The news that the newly launched satellite is projected to orbit this planet for more than two years is inspiring.
剛發射的衛星預計將圍繞這顆行星超過兩年的消息令人振奮。
3. harbor vt. 停靠；容納；懷有
This plan is to establish a special area that harbors adequate electric vehicle assembly lines.
本計劃在於建立一個可以容納足夠電動車生產線的專區。
片語
1. take place 發生
Without a formal statement from our side, the merger case is not likely to take place.
沒有我方的正式聲明，併購案就不可能發生。
2. hold forth (on + N) 滔滔不絕地(講……)
The veteran has a liking for holding forth on how bravely he behaved in Second World War.
這位老兵喜歡大談自己在二戰中的英勇表現。
3. sheer number 數量之多
The sheer number of tricky domestic issues keeps the new prime minister constantly on the run.
棘手的內政問題，數量之多，讓新首相疲於奔命。
句型
1. Word/Rumor/N has it (that) S + V... ……(宣)稱
Word has it that the two sides have agreed to bury the hatchet, with the representative acting as a go-between.
有消息稱，雙方在這位代表的牽線下，已同意盡釋前嫌。
2. sb. be said to + V 據說人(做某事)
John, the prodigal son, is said to have turned over a new leaf; he is now an owner of a startup.
浪子回頭，據說約翰已改過自新。他現在是一家新創公司的老闆。
文法點
1. puzzle out + 名詞子句(why + S + V...)
Why have we never seen or heard any sign of them?
Fermi was puzzling out the reason.
(1) Fermi was puzzling out (the reason) why we have never seen or heard ...
●一個疑問句(Why have we never seen or heard any sign of them? )與一個句子(Fermi was puzzling out the reason.)，兩句合為一句
●疑問句(直接問句)[Why + (助V) + S + V/Vpp....?]，做為及物動詞puzzle的受詞，須轉為名詞子句(間接問句)[why + S + (助V) + V/Vpp...]
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