Often considered the stuff of science fiction, sailing through space was suggested 400 years ago by astronomer Johannes Kepler who observed comet tails blown by the solar wind.
400年前，约翰·开普勒发现太阳风作用形成彗尾的现象，并由此提出星际航行的构想，但这常被认为是科幻小说里的内容。
Science fiction writers and visionary artists of the aborning Space Age applied their talents to picturing a grand future beyond the wild blue yonder.
太空时代正在孕育之中，科幻作家和视觉艺术家们将他们的才华用于描绘未来，一个伟大的九天之外的未来。
Making the stuff of science fiction into reality, NASA engineers are testing solar sails — a unique propulsion technology that one day could enable deep space missions.
NASA的工程师将科幻小说中的素材变成了现实，他们正在检查太阳帆-这中独特的推进技术最终有一天会使深空任务成为可能。
Robotics is a field that long ago left the realm of science fiction to drive advances in industrial automation, health care, space exploration, and other applications.
机器人学很早就超出了科学幻想的领域，并在工业自动化、医疗、太空探索等领域发挥着重要作用。
Space, rockets and science sprang out of the pages of the pulp science-fiction magazines he bought in Woolworths for threepence each, and which he could not always afford.
在他三便士一本从Wool worths那买到的低俗科幻小说杂志里，太空，火箭和科学跃然纸上，而他还时常支付不起。
Old science fiction movies fantasized about aliens wanting our Earth women (like the 1959 "Teenagers From Outer Space").
甚至有些陈旧的科幻电影想象外星人想得到地球的女人(如1959年的电影《来自太空的少年》)。
It might be kind of fanciful to some, but on the other hand, space travel was considered science fiction not that many decades ago.
对于某些人，它可能只是种幻想，但换句话说，几十年前，太空旅行不也是被认为是科幻小说吗。
These speculations sound like science fiction. But the theory of black holes in space is accepted by many serious scientists and astronomers.
这些设想听起来像科幻小说，但空间中黑洞的理论被许多严谨的科学家和天文学家接受。
Keeping in mind that the truth is out there -- the guiding principle of another science-fiction television series -- we'll explore 10 of these space conspiracy theories.
请记住，真相就在那里（这是另一部科幻电视连续剧的全剧导言）。我们将探讨这些太空阴谋论中的10个。
We're talking a bit of science fiction now, but in theory there's nothing that stops you going out (into space).
我们谈论了很多科幻小说罢了，但在理论上没有什么能阻止你要出去（倒太空间）。
A leading American power company is hoping to turn science fiction into reality by supporting a project to set up solar panels in outer space and beam the electricity generated back to Earth.
美国一家领先的电力公司正在积极支持一项有望将科幻变为现实的计划，该计划将在外层空间设立太阳能电站，再将转化成的电能传回地球。
To look up and see what humankind could really accomplish in space was just almost impossible to believe. It seemed like science fiction.
简直难以置信，抬头仰望就能看到人类在太空的真实壮举，就好像是科幻小说似的。
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull.
而那些津津乐道于人们在太空船里到处溜达还用射线枪互相射击的科幻作品都非常傻。
Science fiction tends to present space food as either flavorless, prefabricated cubes or plates of luscious Earth food that magically appear out of high-tech replicators.
科幻小说中的太空食品一般要么是味同嚼蜡的预制的正方体，要么就是一盘一盘的地球美食的高科技复制品。
Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature.
外星人和天外来客长期以来一直是好莱坞电影和科幻小说的题材。
But the idea that countries would fight it out in space has so far been confined to science fiction.
不过，各国可以在太空作战的想法至今为止还仅限于科幻小说。
First, black holes may - as science fiction aficionados will be well aware - act as gateways to other regions of space and time.
首先，黑洞可能充当着到达其他时空的关口——像科幻小说爱好者所深知的那样。
In science fiction, this phrase most commonly refers to a region of empty space between stars or that is remote from the home world.
在科幻小说中，这个短语通常指星球之间或者远离地球的空旷空间。
We also managed to move all of the science fiction books and comic books into the guest room, freeing up space elsewhere in the house.
我们还把所有的科幻小说，漫画书挪到了客房，给其他房间腾出了位置。
Whatever happened to the space age as imagined back in the 1950s and early ’60s, when science fiction writers and rocket scientists spun tales of travel out in the solar system and beyond?
回想一下20世纪50年代和60年代初，科幻作家和火箭科学家们编织太阳系或更远的太空旅行故事时，太空时代究竟发生了什么？
FELTON: I think it was genius to use classical music in the science fiction movie 2001: Space Odyssey. Love Story has one of the saddest soundtracks of all dramas.
我认为在2001年的科幻电影《太空漫游》中使用古典音乐是很聪明的。爱情故事在所有的剧情中都会有段最悲伤的配乐。
The toughest part of writing short fiction is condensing all the same elements necessary for a full length novel into a smaller space.
创作短篇小说最困难的就是缩短篇幅，同时将所有相同的要素放在一起进行考虑。
But the NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are the closest things we have to the space robots of science fiction.
但是NASA的探测器，勇气号和机遇号，是我们所具有的与科幻小说上的机器人最相近的东西。
But the NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are the closest things we have to the space robots of science fiction.
但是NASA的探测器，勇气号和机遇号，是我们所具有的与科幻小说上的机器人最相近的东西。
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