A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
宇航员
Astronaut
I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
我不认识宇航员。有很多人说他们想成为喜剧演员。
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
所以大多数宇航员在被分配到飞行任务前都是宇航员。
It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.
这是一种难以置信的享受，当然也是任何宇航员太空行走生涯的亮点之一。
Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.
还有什么工作能比宇航员更棒?谁不想当宇航员?这是我的问题。
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
宇航员是非常专业的，当他们准备发射时，他们把它作为我们一生中最严肃的努力来准备。
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
在宇航员队伍中，每个人的共同之处不是性别或种族背景，而是动机、毅力和渴望——参与探索之旅的渴望。
Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.
成为一名宇航员是一项美好的事业。我感到非常荣幸。但我真正希望的是，年轻人能找到一份自己热爱的职业，一份富有挑战性和价值的职业。
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
所以大多数准备发射的宇航员都很兴奋，非常焦虑，担心爆炸——因为如果在发射的头几秒钟出了什么问题，你就无能为力了。
I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.
我想成为一名宇航员，想参加太空营，但后来我发现我太矮了，不能成为一名宇航员。我妈妈真的让我相信，如果我足够努力，如果我真的想做，我就能做到。