VOA慢速英语:Is NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine?

短语讲解：

1. If you could build a time machine, what would it look like?

time machine 时光机
look like看起来与(某人或某物)相像〔相似〕
例句：He looks like a scholar.
他看上去像个学者。

2. American scientists are building a space telescope, they hope, will look back over unimaginable distances and time to show the universe close to its beginning.

look back回顾,倒退;回顾,追忆
例句：As we look back over the month we spent there, our hearts are filled with gratitude.
回想起我们在那里度过的一个月，我们心中充满感激之情。
close to离…近
例句：It is close to fact.
这更接近于事实。

3. Today, telescopes take pictures using forms of light hidden from the human eye.

take pictures照相
例句：My sister likes to take pictures.
我妹妹喜欢照相。

4. But this distant past will mainly be seen in infrared light.

infrared light红外线

5. But, if you have ever used a TV remote control, you know there are many uses for it.

remote control遥控,遥控装置
例句：The boat is guided by remote control.
这船是遥控的。

6. We asked him how the device can look back in time.

in time及时, 不迟
例句：He is believed to arrive in time.
相信他会按时到达。

7. And if you look far enough, you start to approach the event scientists believe gave birth to everything.

give birth to引起, 产生
例句：The scientist's experiments gave birth to a new drug.
那位科学家的实验产生了一种新药。

8. Made of light-weight beryllium, the mirror is covered in gold, and divided into eighteen linked parts.

divide into分成; 分为
例句：All things invariably divide into two.
事物都是一分为二的。

9. Any astronomer, at any university, in any country can write a proposal for what they want to do with the telescope.

do with处理;对待
例句：I don't know what to do with it.
我不知道这件事该怎么处理。