Over the weekend, militants tried but failed to blast their way into an American base in eastern Afghanistan, striking before dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and a car bomb.

上周末，武装人员在黎明前发动袭击，试图用火箭筒和汽车炸弹炸出一条通往阿富汗东部地区一个美国基地的路，但最终失败了。

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Powered by ion propulsion instead of conventional rocket fuel, Dawn slid around Vesta on July 15 after a 1.7 billion-mile cruise.

以离子助推而非传统火箭燃料的“黎明号”在7月15日进入灶神星轨道之前已进行了一次17亿英里的巡航。

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Dawn is able to perform the trick of moving from one asteroid to another thanks to its ion-rocket engines, pioneered on an earlier NASA mission called Deep Space one.

由于“黎明”号的离子火箭发动机是能够完成从一个小行星移动到另一个小行星上的技巧。曾早些时候，这种技巧在美国国家航空航天局被称作“深太空一号”任务中首次开创。

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