中國(guó)建成全球比較大射電望遠(yuǎn)鏡探索深空

　　China has fitted the final piece on what will be the world’s largest radio telescope， due to begin operations in September， state media report。

　　在按上最后一塊后，中國(guó)組裝好了世界上最大的射點(diǎn)望遠(yuǎn)鏡，它將于九月開(kāi)始運(yùn)營(yíng)，國(guó)家媒體報(bào)道說(shuō)。

　　The 500m-wide Aperture Spherical Telescope， or FAST， is the size of 30 football fields。

　　這個(gè)500米口徑球面射電望遠(yuǎn)鏡(FAST)，有30個(gè)足球場(chǎng)那么大。

　　The $180m (135m pounds) satellite project will be used to explore space and help look for extraterrestrial life， Xinhua news agency reported。

　　這個(gè)花費(fèi)1.8億美元(1.35億英鎊)的衛(wèi)星項(xiàng)目將用于太空探索和找尋地外生命，新華新聞社報(bào)道說(shuō)。

　　Advancing China’s space program remains a key priority for Beijing。

　　一直以來(lái)，推進(jìn)中國(guó)的太空項(xiàng)目對(duì)于北京都是關(guān)鍵要?jiǎng)?wù)。

　　Scientists are now due to start debugging and trials of the telescope， Zheng Xiaonian， deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences told Xinhua。

　　科學(xué)家們將開(kāi)始調(diào)試和測(cè)試望遠(yuǎn)鏡，Zheng Xiaonian——中國(guó)科學(xué)院國(guó)家天文觀(guān)測(cè)副組長(zhǎng)說(shuō)道。

　　What will the telescope do?

　　這個(gè)望遠(yuǎn)鏡會(huì)用于什么?

　　Survey neutral hydrogen in distant galaxies and detect faint pulsars (highly magnetised balls of neutrons)

　　在遙遠(yuǎn)的星系勘測(cè)中性氫和探測(cè)微弱的脈沖星(高度磁化的中子球)

　　More than 2，000 pulsars so far said to have been detected

　　據(jù)說(shuō)已檢測(cè)到的脈沖星超過(guò)2000個(gè)

　　Improve the chances of detecting low frequency gravitational waves

　　提高檢測(cè)低頻引力波的幾率

　　Help in the search for extraterrestrial life

　　幫助尋找地外生命

　　FAST will replace the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico， which is around 300m (984ft) in diameter， as the world’s largest telescope。

　　FAST將替代波多黎各阿雷西博天文臺(tái)的望遠(yuǎn)鏡(直徑300米)，成為世界上最大的望遠(yuǎn)鏡，

　　China has stated that its space program has peaceful purposes， but the US Defence Department has said it was pursuing activities aimed to “prevent adversaries from using space-based assets in a crisis，” reported news agency Reuters。

　　中國(guó)已經(jīng)表示它的太空項(xiàng)目是以和平為目的，但美國(guó)國(guó)防部說(shuō)它從事著以“防止對(duì)手在危機(jī)中使用天基資產(chǎn)”為目的的活動(dòng)，新聞機(jī)構(gòu)路透社報(bào)道說(shuō)。

　　Beijing is due to launch a “core module” for its first space station in 2018。

　　北京將于2018年在它的第一個(gè)空間站使用“核心模塊”。