鼠鼠上天了
LearnAndRecord约 8 分钟昨晚，神舟二十一号载人飞船发射取得圆满成功。据了解，神舟二十一号载人飞船还搭载了4只小鼠执行我国首次啮齿类哺乳动物空间实验。
🤔️小作业：
1. What is the primary purpose of the article?
A. To praise China's scientific superiority over the United States
B. To argue why young astronauts are better suited for space missions
C. To report China's latest space mission while noting its implications
D. To criticize the U.S.-led Artemis programme
无注释原文：
China sends its youngest astronaut to 'Heavenly Palace' space station
From: Reuters
China's Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Chinese state media reported.
It was the seventh mission to the permanently inhabited Chinese space station since it was completed in 2022.
Missions on China's Shenzhou-21 spacecraft involve trios of astronauts on six-month stays in space, with veteran astronauts increasingly replaced by younger faces. First-timers Zhang Hongzhang, 39, and Wu Fei, 32 - China's youngest astronaut to be sent to space - were picked to participate in the programme in 2020.
The Shenzhou-21 astronauts will take over from the Shenzhou-20 crew who had lived and worked on board Tiangong, or "Heavenly Palace", for more than six months. The Shenzhou-20 astronauts will return to Earth in the coming days.
The Shenzhou-21 crew were also joined by four black mice, the first small mammals to be taken to the Chinese space station. The mice will be used in experiments on reproduction in low Earth orbit.
Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou programme, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.
The rapid advances have raised alarm bells in Washington, which is now racing to put a U.S. astronaut on the moon again before China does.
Both countries are also competing in nascent institution-building efforts, with the U.S.-led Artemis Accords on lunar exploration matched up against the Chinese and Russian-led International Lunar Research Station.
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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为机器翻译并非一一对应，仅供参考
含注释全文：
China sends its youngest astronaut to 'Heavenly Palace' space station
From: Reuters
China's Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China, Chinese state media reported.
据中国官方媒体报道，神舟二十一号飞船及乘组人员（其中包括航天员队伍中最年轻的成员）于周五从西北地区酒泉卫星发射中心，搭载长征二号F火箭发射升空。
crew
crew /kruː/ 1）作名词，表示“全体船员；全体机务人员”，英文解释为“The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.”举个🌰：The mission for the crew of the space shuttle is essentially over. 航天飞机全体机务人员的使命基本完成。
2）作名词，表示“一组工作人员”，英文解释为“A crew is a group of people with special technical skills who work together on a task or project.”如：a two-man film crew making a documentary 一个制作纪录片的两人摄制组。
3）作动词，表示“当船员；充当…的船员；当（尤指船上的）工作人员；当空乘人员”，英文解释为“If you crew a boat, you work on it as part of the crew.”举个🌰：This neighbour crewed on a ferryboat. 这位邻居在一艘渡船上当船员。
crops
1）表示“特种部队；特殊兵种；军（团）”，英文解释为“a military unit trained to perform particular duties”如：the Royal Army Medical Corps 皇家陆军医疗队 如：the intelligence corps 情报部队。
2）表示“（从事同类活动的）一群人”，英文解释为“a group of people who are connected because they are involved in a particular activity”如：the diplomatic corps 外交使团，the press corps 记者团。
blast off
表示“（火箭）点火起飞，发射升空”，英文解释为“If a rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground to go into space.”
🎬电影《海啸奇迹》（The Impossible）中在放“孔明灯”时大家就狂喊：Blast off.
It was the seventh mission to the permanently inhabited Chinese space station since it was completed in 2022.
自2022年中国空间站建成并实现长期驻留以来，这已是第七次航天任务。
inhabit
inhabit /ɪnˈhæb.ɪt/ 表示“居住于”，英文解释为“to live in a place”举个🌰：These remote islands are inhabited only by birds. 这些偏僻的岛屿上只有鸟类栖息。
Missions on China's Shenzhou-21 spacecraft involve trios of astronauts on six-month stays in space, with veteran astronauts increasingly replaced by younger faces. First-timers Zhang Hongzhang, 39, and Wu Fei, 32 - China's youngest astronaut to be sent to space - were picked to participate in the programme in 2020.
神舟二十一号飞船乘组由三名航天员组成，将执行为期六个月的太空驻留任务。越来越多的新生代正逐步接替老一代航天员。首次飞天的张洪章（39岁）和武飞（32岁，也是中国最年轻的太空人）于2020年入选航天员队伍。
trio
trio /ˈtriːəʊ/ 表示“三人小组；三件一套；三合一”，英文解释为“A trio is a group of three people together, especially musicians or singers, or a group of three things that have something in common.”
veteran
veteran /ˈvetərən/ 1）表示“老手，（在某方面）经验丰富的人”，英文解释为“someone who has had a lot of experience of a particular activity”，如：veteran leader/veteran journalist/actor/goalkeeper etc 资深领袖/资深记者/资深演员/经验丰富的守门员等。
2）表示“老兵，退伍军人”，英文解释为“someone who has been in the armed forces during a war”如：a Vietnam veteran 越战老兵。
The Shenzhou-21 astronauts will take over from the Shenzhou-20 crew who had lived and worked on board Tiangong, or "Heavenly Palace", for more than six months. The Shenzhou-20 astronauts will return to Earth in the coming days.
神舟二十一号乘组将接替已在中国空间站“天宫”驻留超过半年的神舟二十号乘组，而神舟二十号乘组将在未来几天返回地球。
The Shenzhou-21 crew were also joined by four black mice, the first small mammals to be taken to the Chinese space station. The mice will be used in experiments on reproduction in low Earth orbit.
此次航天任务还带上了四只黑色小鼠，这是首次将小型哺乳动物送入中国空间站，它们将用于低地球轨道的繁殖实验。
mammal
mammal /ˈmæm.əl/ 表示“哺乳动物”，英文解释为“any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own body. Most mammals give birth to live young, not eggs.”举个🌰：Humans, dogs, elephants, and dolphins are all mammals, but birds, fish, and crocodiles are not. 人、狗、大象和海豚都是哺乳动物，而鸟、鱼和鳄鱼则不是。
Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou programme, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.
神舟飞行任务如今已常态化为一年两次。过去一年，实现了多个里程碑：启用首批“90后”航天员、刷新太空行走世界纪录，并计划明年将首位来自巴基斯坦的外国航天员送入天宫。
biannual
biannual /baɪˈæn.ju.əl/ 表示“一年两次的，一年两度的；半年一次的”，英文解释为“happening twice a year”举个🌰：The committee has just published its biannual report. 委员会刚刚公布了半年报告。
The rapid advances have raised alarm bells in Washington, which is now racing to put a U.S. astronaut on the moon again before China does.
中国航天事业的迅猛推进令美国感到担忧，美国正加速推进登月计划，希望在中国之前再次让美国人踏上月球。
raise alarm bells
raise/ring/set off/sound alarm bells表示“敲响警钟；引起警觉”，英文解释为“to cause worry because of being a sign that there may be a serious problem”举个🌰：Her statement should have rung alarm bells but nobody took the precaution of checking the facts. 她的陈述本应敲响警钟，但没有人采取预防措施去核查事实。
Both countries are also competing in nascent institution-building efforts, with the U.S.-led Artemis Accords on lunar exploration matched up against the Chinese and Russian-led International Lunar Research Station.
两国也在新兴制度建设方面展开竞争，美国主导的《阿尔忒弥斯协定》（Artemis Accords）月球探索框架，与中俄主导的国际月球科研站计划正形成对垒态势。
nascent
nascent /ˈnæsənt/ 表示“新生的；初期的；开始发展的”，英文解释为“Nascent things or processes are just beginning, and are expected to become stronger or to grow bigger.”如：the still nascent science of psychology 方兴未艾的心理学，a nascent problem 新出现的问题。
accord
accord /əˈkɔːd/ 表示“（正式的）协议；条约；一致；符合”，英文解释为“(a formal) agreement”举个🌰：On 31 October they signed a peace accord. 10月31日他们签署了一项和平协议。
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