My father is a man of few words, but somewhere deep beneath the surface of him lies a caring character.

我的父亲是一个少言寡语的人，但是在其外表之下内心深处的某个地方保留着关爱他人的品格。

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That said, the noisy battle (above) between man and machine on the planet’s surface—where there is plenty of air—is acoustically perfect.

如果编剧原本将这场人与机器之间吵闹的大战设置在那个拥有丰富大气的行星表面，这一切在声学上就完美了。

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Planting a man on its surface required no big technological innovations, says Mr Logsdon,“just very expensive mastery over nature using the scientific and technological knowledge available in 1961”.

把人送到月球表面并不需要太大的技术投入，用劳杰斯特的话说，“用60年代的科学技术去征服自然，只不是非常昂贵罢了”。

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And just as in that earlier poem the act of fishing is symbolically resonant "The Fisherman" is an image of man searching the depths of the world for the wisdom that hides beneath the surface of things.

和以前的事一样,也是有象征意味的,渔夫是一个探索世界的深邃,和隐藏在事物表面下的智慧,的一个人物形象。

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The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.

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But once you scratch the surface, it raises more questions about the man behind the music.

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