NASA以及其它航宇者和探索者经常使用这种基础研究来探索地外生命，设计太空任务，计划地面报告。

This kind of basic research is often used by NASA, as well as other astronomers and explorers for extraterrestrial life, to design space missions and plan ground-based observations.

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“我们在哪一步。 如果顺利的话，我希望到10月底我们可以发现500颗。” SETI（探索地外文明）研究所的乔恩詹金斯说。

"Where we are, I'd expect that by the end of October, we'll be at 500 if things keep going the way they're going," said Jon Jenkins of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute.

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月球侦查轨道器将一块微型芯片带到了月球，而肩负探索地外生命任务的开普勒太空望远镜则搭载了一张致地外智慧生物的光盘，上面存满了人类的名字和写给地外生物的信息。

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took a microchip to the moon. And the exoplanet-hunting Kepler telescope took a DVD full of names and messages to ET into orbit.

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I did not abandon my interest in politics to discover how it might be bettered in other respects, and I was perpetually awaiting my opportunity.

我并未放弃对政治的兴趣,仍想探索,如何能更有效地管治，我也一直都在等待我的机会。

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I think that play really explores themes like that.

我想那部戏剧真正地探索了这样的主题。

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Something must have led him to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new civilizations and to boldly go where no man had gone before.

某种东西让他探索新的未知世界，探索新的文明,大胆地到没人去过的地方。

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