英语每日一听 | 每天少于5分钟

January 28th, 1986, before a television audience, seven passengers aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger took flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1986年1月28日，在电视观众面前，挑战者号航天飞机上的七名乘客从佛罗里达州的肯尼迪航天中心起飞。

Among them was Christa McAuliffe, who was selected in a nationwide search for a teacher to be NASA's first citizen passenger in space.
其中一位是克里斯塔·麦考利芙，她是在全国范围内选拔出来的教师，将成为NASA首位进入太空的普通公民乘客。

I don't think any teacher has ever been more ready to have two lessons in my life.
我认为在我的教学生涯中，从来没有哪位老师像我这样准备好上两节课。

I've been preparing these in September, and I just hope everybody tunes in on day 4 now to watch the teacher teaching from space.
我一直在九月份准备这些内容，现在只希望大家都能在第四天收看老师从太空授课。

Just 73 seconds after takeoff disaster after a rubber seal in one of the shuttle's twin booster rockets failed, triggering an explosion that doomed all on board.
起飞后仅73秒，灾难降临——航天飞机的两枚助推火箭之一的橡胶密封圈失效，引发爆炸，致使机上所有人员全部遇难。

Then president Ronald Reagan eulogized the crew and called them heroes.
随后，罗纳德·里根总统悼念了机组人员，并称他们为英雄。

And while the flight exposed failures in NASA management who ignored safety warnings from scientists, it's widely regarded as planting the seed for shuttle development in today's commercial space flights.
尽管这次飞行暴露了NASA管理层忽视科学家安全警告的失误，但人们普遍认为，它为当今商业太空飞行中的航天飞机发展播下了种子。

Companies like SpaceX have even flown missions to the International Space Station, where on Wednesday astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover spacewalk to finish installing a European science platform and complete long-term battery upgrades.
像SpaceX这样的公司甚至已经执行了前往国际空间站的任务，周三，宇航员迈克尔·霍普金斯和维克多·格洛弗在那里进行太空行走，以完成欧洲科学平台的安装，并完成长期电池升级任务。

The advancements can further research on Earth observation, robotics, material science and astrophysics. This according to a tweet from the space station's twitter account.
这些进展可进一步推动地球观测、机器人技术、材料科学和天体物理学领域的研究。这一消息来自空间站推特账号发布的一条推文。

Back on Earth, climatologists sounded yet another alarm this week. An estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted from icesheetsand glaciers since the mid 1990s.
回到地球，气候学家本周再次发出警报。自20世纪90年代中期以来，冰盖和冰川估计已有28万亿公吨的冰融化。

That's 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, per report scientists published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.
根据科学家们周一在The Cryosphere期刊上发表的报告，这比三十年前快了57%。

In that time, global sea levels have risen three and a half centimeters, while the global temperature has gone up by one degree Celsius.
在此期间，全球海平面上升了3.5厘米， 而全球气温上升了一摄氏度。

Finally this week, abutcherin Scotland sent a bag of haggis into the atmosphere.
苏格兰的一位屠夫将一袋哈吉斯送入了大气层。

Simon Howie's bag of organ meats climbed more than 32 kilometers before falling back to the ground.
西蒙·豪伊的那袋动物内脏上升了超过32公里，然后才落回地面。

He claims it was the first haggis to reach such heights and says he hopes it inspires children's interest in space.
他声称这是第一份到达如此高度的哈吉斯，并表示他希望这能激发孩子们对太空的兴趣。

Scientists say the developing El Niño is already the strongest ever recorded, with sea temperatures in a key region of the Pacific more than three degrees above average, and this event is not expected to peak until later this year.
科学家表示，目前正在形成的厄尔尼诺现象已达到有记录以来最强水平，太平洋一个关键海域的海水温度比平均水平高出三度以上，而此次厄尔尼诺预计要到今年晚些时候才会达到峰值。

El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon that occurs when unusually warm water develops across the tropical Pacific, disrupting weather patterns around the world.
厄尔尼诺是一种自然气候现象，当热带太平洋出现大范围异常偏暖的海水时便会发生，扰乱全球各地的天气模式。

The Met Office says its impacts are already being felt, with wildfires in Indonesia and low water levels in the Panama Canal restricting international shipping. As it develops, it's expected to bring droughts and wildfires to parts of Australia, South America and southern Africa, while coastal Peru and Ecuador face the threat of torrential rain and flooding.
英国气象局表示，厄尔尼诺现象的影响已开始显现：印度尼西亚发生野火，巴拿马运河水位偏低，使国际航运受到限制。随着厄尔尼诺的进一步发展，预计澳大利亚、南美洲和南部非洲的部分地区将遭遇干旱和野火。与此同时，秘鲁和厄瓜多尔沿海地区面临暴雨和洪水的威胁。

The Sun has set, and you're headed to a train station in Stockholm with your overnight bag. You board the sleeper train, change into your comfortable clothes, enjoy the scenery through the window for a while before laying your head down to rest. Snoring from the other passengers in your shared cabin delays your bedtime, but the gentle motion and white noise eventually send you to sleep. The next morning, just over 12 hours later, you wake up in Germany's second largest city, Hamburg. "It still sounds like a long time, but you go to sleep, and it's such a nice atmosphere on the train," says Julia Senninger, a fan of sleeper trains.
太阳已经落山，您带着过夜行李前往斯德哥尔摩的火车站。 登上卧铺列车，换上舒适的衣服，欣赏一下窗外的风景，然后就低头休息。 共用客舱内其他乘客的鼾声会延迟您的就寝时间，但轻柔的动作和白噪音最终会让您入睡。 第二天早上，12 个多小时后，您在德国第二大城市汉堡醒来。 “听起来还是很长一段时间，但你很快就睡着了，火车上的气氛真好，”卧铺火车的粉丝朱莉娅·森宁格 (Julia Senninger) 说道。

Before budget airlines made flights across Europe so quick and cheap, sleeper trains were a popular way to cover large distances without wasting daylight or paying for a place to stay. After a period of decline, sleeper trains in Europe are making a comeback.Belgian-Dutch company European Sleeper launched the Brussels to Milan route in September 2026 and has announced a new route connecting Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, scheduled to open in 2028. Other train companies Trenitalia and Nightjet have also announced plans for new international routes. Companies are rushing to meet high demand.
在廉价航空公司提供如此快捷、便宜的穿越欧洲的航班之前，卧铺火车是一种流行的长途旅行方式，无需浪费日光或支付住宿费用。 经过一段时间的衰退后，欧洲的卧铺列车正在卷土重来。比利时-荷兰公司European Sleeper于2026年9月推出了布鲁塞尔至米兰的航线，并宣布了一条连接比利时、荷兰和瑞典的新航线，计划于2028年开通。其他火车公司Trenitalia和Nightjet也宣布了新的国际航线的计划。 公司正在争先恐后地满足高需求。

The rise in popularity is partly due to changing attitudes and increased awareness surrounding climate change. The carbon footprint of an electric-powered train is just a fraction of a flight. But there's more to it. Sleeper train fan Julia Senninger says trains are simply more fun. You meet more people and can have interesting conversations. Cat Jones, founder of the flight-free travel agency Byway, says, "The point of travel is the experience rather than just the arrival." So, people are buying into the idea that the journey to your destination is also part of the trip. Besides the convenience of starting and ending your journey in a city centre, there's also a sense of romance and adventure when you imagine whizzing through unknown landscapes and foreign villages while you sleep.
受欢迎程度的上升部分归因于人们对气候变化的态度的改变和意识的增强。 电动火车的碳足迹只是飞行的一小部分。 但还有更多。 卧铺火车迷朱莉娅·森宁格 (Julia Senninger) 表示，火车更有趣。 你会认识更多的人，并可以进行有趣的对话。 不搭乘航班的旅行社 Byway 的创始人卡特·琼斯 (Cat Jones) 表示：“旅行的重点在于体验，而不仅仅是抵达。” 因此，人们相信到达目的地的旅程也是旅行的一部分。 除了在市中心方便地开始和结束旅程之外，当您想象在睡觉时飞驰穿过未知的风景和外国村庄时，还会有一种浪漫和冒险的感觉。

In Europe, the sleeper train comeback does not come without challenges. Competing with budget airlines, some sleeper train routes have disappeared, even while new ones have launched. Problems with infrastructure, cost and availability mean that the high demand for a more sustainable travel option is not currently being met.
在欧洲，卧铺列车的卷土重来并非没有挑战。 与廉价航空公司竞争，一些卧铺火车线路已经消失，尽管新线路已经开通。 基础设施、成本和可用性方面的问题意味着对更可持续的旅行选择的高需求目前尚未得到满足。

Protesters continue to gather outside the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday after Elon Musk and President Trump made moves to dismantle the agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas.
周一，在埃隆·马斯克和特朗普总统采取行动解散负责向海外提供人道主义援助的美国国际开发署后，抗议者继续聚集在美国国际开发署外。

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports. William Whelan, a retired USAID employee, says that he worked for the agency to help starving people worldwide.
美联社记者哈亚·潘杰瓦尼（Haya Panjwani）报道。美国国际开发署退休员工威廉·惠兰（William Whelan）表示，他为该机构工作是为了帮助全世界的饥饿人民。

"This program helped people not only who faced starvation, but it helped Americans. So I find it hard to believe that Americans wouldn't understand the mutual benefit."
“这个项目不仅帮助了面临饥饿的人们，也帮助了美国人。所以我很难相信美国人不会理解这种互惠互利。”

A federal judge dealt Trump and Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the agency, ordering a temporary halt on plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job. Haya Panjwani, Washington.
一名联邦法官给特朗普和马斯克在解散该机构的过程中带来了第一个重大挫折，下令暂时停止将数千名机构工作人员从工作岗位上撤下的计划。记者哈亚·潘杰瓦尼在华盛顿报道。

A U.S. district judge found Monday that the Trump administration hasn't fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and told the White House to release billions of dollars in funding. AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports.
一名美国地区法官周一裁定，特朗普政府没有完全遵守他的命令解冻联邦支出，并要求白宫释放数十亿美元的资金。美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼（Sagar Meghani）报道。

The judge says the White House has violated his order from late last month, noting continued struggles to get federal money for things like early childhood education and HIV research.
法官表示，白宫违反了他上个月底的命令，指出联邦政府继续努力争取资金用于早期儿童教育和艾滋病研究等项目。

He says a broad, categorical and sweeping federal funding freeze is likely unconstitutional and is ordering the administration to release all the money in a suit filed by nearly two dozen states, including Maryland.
他说，广泛彻底的联邦资金冻结可能违宪，并命令特朗普政府在包括马里兰州在内的近二十个州提起的诉讼中释放所有资金。

"Thank goodness for the courts," where Senator Chris Van Hollen says a flurry of illegal Trump actions has drawn a flurry of legal challenges.
“感谢法院”，参议员克里斯·范·霍伦表示，特朗普的一系列非法行为引发了一系列法律挑战。

"I've never seen so many temporary restraining orders issued in such a short period of time against the U.S. government." Sagar Meghani, at the White House.
“我从未见过在如此短的时间内针对美国政府发布如此多的临时限制令。”记者萨加尔·梅加尼在白宫报道。

President Trump on Monday said he has ordered the treasury secretary to cease production of the one cent coin known as the penny. Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener reports.
特朗普总统周一表示，他已下令财政部长停止生产一美分硬币，。路透社记者吉莉安·基钦纳(Jillian Kitchener)报道。

After more than 200 years in circulation, the U.S. penny, the smallest denomination of American currency, may have run out of luck.
在流通了200多年之后，美国货币中最小面额的一美分硬币可能已经没用了。

In a Truth Social post, President Trump said the one cent coin is not worth the metal it's printed on,
在一篇真相社交帖子中，特朗普总统表示，一美分硬币不值它所印的金属价值，

saying pennies actually cost more than two cents to make and that he instructed his treasury secretary to stop producing new ones.
他说一美分硬币的制造成本实际上超过两美分，他指示财政部长停止生产新的一美分硬币。

Supporters of the penny have argued that it helps keep consumer prices lower and is a source of income to charities.
一美分硬币的支持者认为，它有助于降低消费价格，是慈善机构的收入来源。

Others say the one cent coin is a nuisance that ends up being discarded. Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener.
其他人说，一美分硬币是一种麻烦，最终会被丢弃。路透社记者吉莉安·基钦纳报道。

Trump's ultimatum to Hamas received a mixed reaction from Israelis for whom the release of the hostages remains top priority. VOA's Jeff Caster reports.
特朗普向哈马斯发出的最后通牒在以色列人中引起了褒贬不一的反应，以色列人认为释放人质仍然是当务之急。美国之音记者杰夫·卡斯特（Jeff Caster）报道。

Hamas's spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday Trump needs to remember there is an agreement which must be respected by both parties.
哈马斯发言人萨米·阿布·祖赫里周二表示，特朗普需要记住双方必须尊重一项协议。

Jerusalem resident Hagit Herman told the Reuters news agency she thought Trump's intentions may have been good, but the message was wrong.
耶路撒冷居民哈吉特·赫尔曼（Hagit Herman）告诉路透社，她认为特朗普的意图可能是好的，但传递的信息是错误的。

"I think Trump has good meanings, but I think now he's not on it. I think he must go in another way.
“我认为特朗普的意图是好的，但现在他已经不同意了。我认为他必须换一种方式。

I think the most important thing is to get back our people to Israel and not push it and not threaten the Hamas because that's not the way."
我认为最重要的是让我们的人民回到以色列，不要强迫他们，不要威胁哈马斯，因为这不是办法。”

Trump did say that Israel might want to override him regarding his suggestion the cease-fire be cancelled and said he might speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the issue. Jeff Caster, VOA News.
特朗普确实表示，以色列可能想推翻他取消停火的建议，并表示他可能会就此问题与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡交谈。美国之音新闻记者杰夫·卡斯特报道。

Canada has named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country's new fentanyl czar.
加拿大任命了一位前加拿大皇家骑警副局长，担任该国新的芬太尼沙皇。

Officials hope to show the U.S. it is working to prevent production and distribution of the synthetic opioid.
官员们希望向美国表明，他们正在努力防止这种合成阿片类药物的产销。

Kevin Brosseau has served as an RCMP deputy commissioner and the senior Mountie in the province of Manitoba. More recently, he was deputy national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister.
Kevin Brosseau曾担任加拿大皇家骑警副局长和马尼托巴省高级骑警。最近，他担任总理的国家安全和情报副顾问。

President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose steep tariffs on all goods from Canada, citing the southbound flow of migrants and drugs, including fentanyl.
唐纳德·特朗普总统最近威胁要对所有来自加拿大的商品征收高额关税，理由是移民和毒品（包括芬太尼）向南流动。

Vice President J.D. Vance warned leaders at a Paris summit against killing the growth of artificial intelligence with "excessive regulation." AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports.
副总统J.D.万斯在巴黎峰会上警告各国领导人不要用“过度监管”来扼杀人工智能的发展。美联社记者Karen Chammas报道。

Speaking at the summit in Paris, Vice President Vance said, "We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool forauthoritariancensorship."
副总统万斯在巴黎峰会上表示：“我们强烈认为，人工智能必须摆脱意识形态偏见，美国人工智能不会被利用为独裁审查的工具。”

He also used his speech to world leaders, tech bosses and researchers to repeatedly push back against what he called "excessive regulation" of the rapidly growing AI industry.
他还利用对世界各国领导人、科技老板和研究人员的演讲，反复反驳他所谓的对快速发展的人工智能行业的“过度监管”。

Concerns over AI's potential dangers have loomed over the summit, particularly as nations grapple with how to regulate a technology that is increasingly entwined with defense and warfare. I'm Karen Chammas.
对人工智能潜在危险的担忧笼罩着峰会，尤其是在各国努力解决如何监管与国防和战争日益交织在一起的技术之际。我是凯伦·查马斯。

Iraq's top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country's parliament.
伊拉克最高法院驳回了一项上诉，该上诉暂时中止了该国议会上个月通过的三项有争议的法律。

The measures include an amendment to the country's personal status law to give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, which critics have said would erode women's rights.
这些措施包括对该国个人地位法的修正，赋予伊斯兰法院在家庭事务方面的更大权力，批评人士称这将削弱妇女的权利。

They also include a general amnesty law that opponents say would allow the release of people involved in public corruption and embezzlement, as well as militants who committed war crimes.
它们还包括一项大赦法，反对者称这将允许释放参与公共腐败和贪污的犯人，以及犯下战争罪的武装分子。

The third bill aimed to return lands confiscated from the Kurds under the rule of Saddam Hussein, which some fear would lead to the displacement of Arab residents. [解析]
第三项法案旨在归还萨达姆·侯赛因统治期间从库尔德人手中没收的土地，一些人担心这会导致阿拉伯居民流离失所。