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| I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little princ e came from was scarcely any larger than a house! But that did not really surprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great planets such as the Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Venus to whic h we have given names, there are also hundreds of others, some of which are so small that one has a hard time seeing them through the telescope. When an astronomer discovers one of these he does not give it a name, but only a number. He might call it, for example, "Asteroid 325." I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612. This asteroid has only once been seen through the telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909. | 由此，我得到第二个很重要的讯息：小王子居住的星球几乎比不上一栋房子那般的大。 这个事实并未让我感到特别意外。 我心里明白除了如地球、木星、金星、火星等大行星已经被命名之外，其他还有无数不胜枚举的小行星，有些行星小到即使用望远镜也很难窥见其貌。 一旦有天文学家发现某个小行星，他并不会为它命名，通常只会给它一个编号。 比如，他可能会用"小行星 325 号"来做代表。 我有充分的理由相信小王子是来自"小行星 B-612"。 这个小行星只让人用望远镜发现过一次。 那是在 1909 年，被一位土耳其天文学家所发现的。 |
- planet [´plænit]
n.行星 (初中英语单词) - addition [ə´diʃən] n.加；加法；附加物 (初中英语单词)
- jupiter [´dʒu:pitə] n.朱庇特；木星 (初中英语单词)
- prince [´prins] n.王子；亲王；君主 (初中英语单词)
- learned [´lə:nid] a.有学问的，博学的 (高中英语单词)
- seeing [si:iŋ] see的现在分词 n.视觉 (高中英语单词)
- telescope [´teliskəup] n.望远镜 (高中英语单词)
- astronomer [ə´strɔnəmə] n.天文学家 (高中英语单词)
- turkish [´tə:kiʃ] a.&n.土耳其人(语)的 (英语六级单词)
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