1、听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。【免费英语听力下载】参考译文 星球大战中有些技术将变成现实Powder Pulls Drinking Water from Desert AirIts an idea straight out of Star Wars: suck the humidity from dry desert air, and turn it into drinking water.这是星球大战的一个创意:从干燥的沙漠空气中吸取湿气，然后把它变成饮用水Star Wars: Episode IVA New Hope: “What I real
2、ly need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators. Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load liftersvery similar to your vaporators in most respects.“星球大战 4:新希望:“我真正需要的是一个懂水分汽化器的二元语言的机器人。”蒸发器吗? 先生，我的第一份工作是编程二进制负载升降机在很多方面与您的汽化器非常相似。Very similar to the vapor
3、ators in Star Wars moisture farms, scientists have now used a box of gunmetal gray powder to pry moisture from the dry Arizona air by nightand deliver drinking water the next day.就像星球大战的潮湿农场里的汽化器一样，科学家们现在使用了一盒金属灰色粉末，在夜间从干燥的亚利桑那州空气中过滤水分，之后在第二天就可以提供饮用水。The powder is consists of tiny structures called
4、metal organic frameworks, which contain even tinier pores to grab water.这种粉末由一种叫做金属有机框架的微小结构组成，它含有更小的孔隙来获取水分。“The water goes in and the first ones go in and make the pores more polar and so more water comes in.“水份流入，使孔隙更具有吸引性，因此使更多的水流入。”Omar Yaghi, a chemist at U.C. Berkeley.奥马尔亚吉，加州大学伯克利分校的化学家。The
5、powder-filled box is built inside yet another box. At night the larger box is left open, but when its closed in the morning, it helps trap heatand evaporated waterinside. The water then condenses inside the larger box and trickles down to be collectedno cooler or power source needed.听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！w
6、ww.TingC学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。【免费英语听力下载】这个充满药粉的盒子是装在另一个盒子里的。晚上，大一点的盒子是开着的，但是在早上关闭时，有助于吸收热量-保存内部蒸发的水分。然后，水在大的盒子里凝结，然后滴下来收集此过程不需要冷却器或电源。The finding by Yaghi and colleagues is in the journal Science Advances.亚吉和同事们将研究结果发表在了科学进步杂志上。It would take many truckloads of powder to sustain a communityevery pound of the
7、 zirconium-based metal organic framework used here only squeezes three ounces of water from the air per day. But Yaghi is testing a much cheaper, more efficient aluminum-based powder. Which might just bring us a little closer to Tatooine. Technologically.要维持一个社区的供水需要大量的粉末这里使用的基于锆的金属有机骨架每天只能从空气中挤出三盎司
8、的水。但亚吉正在测试一种更便宜、更高效的铝基粉末。从技术角度而言，这可能会让我们更接近“塔图因”。听力原文Powder Pulls Drinking Water from Desert AirIts an idea straight out of Star Wars: suck the humidity from dry desert air, and turn it into drinking water.Star Wars: Episode IVA New Hope: “What I really need is a droid who understands the binary lan
9、guage of moisture vaporators.Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load liftersvery similar to your vaporators in most respects.“Very similar to the vaporators in Star Warss moisture farms, scientists have now used a box of gunmetal gray powder to pry moisture from the dry Arizona air
10、 by nightand deliver drinking water the next day.The powder is consists of tiny structures called metal organic frameworks, which contain even tinier pores to grab water.“The water goes in and the first ones go in and make the pores more polar and so more water comes in.“Omar Yaghi, a chemist at U.C
11、. Berkeley.The powder-filled box is built inside yet another box. At night the larger box is left open, but when its closed in the morning, it helps trap heatand 听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。【免费英语听力下载】evaporated waterinside. The water then condenses inside the larger box and trickles down t
12、o be collectedno cooler or power source needed.The finding by Yaghi and colleagues is in the journal Science Advances.It would take many truckloads of powder to sustain a communityevery pound of the zirconium-based metal organic framework used here only squeezes three ounces of water from the air per day. But Yaghi is testing a much cheaper, more efficient aluminum-based powder. Which might just bring us a little closer to Tatooine. Technologically.
