影片对白

Tom Kelly: Unfortunately, moving LEM 3 to the Cape¹ did little to ease the pressure we were under.

Jim McDivitt: Tom, there's still at least a hundred things wrong with it.

Tom Kelly: We'll get it fixed² in time.

Jim McDivitt: No, you won't. There is no way in three months that thing is gonna be ready to fly.

Tom Kelly: Look, Jim, it's--It's a good machine. Just needs a little fine-tuning. That's all.

Jim McDivitt: You don't have to whisper, Tom. It can't hear you. Look, I want it to go up as much as you do. I know we're running out of time. It's 18 months to the end of the decade and we still haven't had a single manned Apollo flight. I know that. But that doesn't change the facts. LEM 3 is not ready to fly. And it won't be any time soon. That's gonna have to be my recommendation to headquarters.

Man: Now, with the LEM 3 not ready to fly after Wally and the 7 crew go up with the C.S.M. in October that means there won't be another Apollo flight until the spring, right?

Jim McDivitt: Right.

Man: Well, maybe not. George has come up with a rather wild idea.

Jim McDivitt: How wild?

Man: Frank's mission is being scrubbed. We've created a new C-Prime mission which will precede your mission.

Jim McDivitt: What's the mission?

Man: Well, we're gonna send the command and service module³-- no lunar module--on a flight around the moon in December.

Jim McDivitt: Really? What's Frank think about it?

Man: I haven't talked to Frank yet. I'm talking to you first. I don't want to lose your crew's experience with LEM 3. That's why we decided⁴ to send Frank on this mission ahead of you. But I wanted to see what you had to say about it before I told Frank.

Jim McDivitt: I told him we'd stick with the mission we got.

Rusty⁵ Schweickart: Good. Going around the moon sounds like a blast and all but I really wanna fly the LEM.

Jim McDivitt: That's pretty much what Dave said. I called him in Downey. He said he really wanted to fly the command module solo--get us out of his hair for a few hours. I don't know though. Maybe we're making a mistake. Maybe we're missing out on some historical voyage.

Rusty Schweickart: I don't know, Jim. Maybe. But it sounds like they're just gonna be sightseeing. With all the things we gotta do, our mission's fun.

Jim McDivitt: Yeah, we got a great mission. Providing that thing will fly.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. LEM

即lunar excursion module，LM（lunar module）最初的名字：A spacecraft designed to transport astronauts from a command module orbiting the moon to the lunar surface and back.

2. Cape

指 Kennedy Space Center肯尼迪航天中心，在Cape Canaveral，美国弗罗里达州东部。

3. Scrub

俚语，意思是“取消，放弃”，本意是“洗，擦，擦掉”。例如：We had to scrub our plans for vacation.

4. Stick with

这个片语也写作 stick to，在口语中表示“坚持做(某事)”，例如：They stuck with us through all our difficulties.

 5. Blast

俚语，指“令人极兴奋或愉快的经历、事件或热闹聚会”。

6. Out of someone's hair

首先来说说这个片语的反义词：in someone's hair，想想看，如果有东西在你的头发里，你是什么感觉？In one’s hair 的意思就是“annoying or bothering someone 烦扰某人”，例如：She was constantly in my hair, overseeing everything I did．

那么，out of one’s hair 就是叫“别人不要烦你”了。如果有人烦你，你就可以这么说：Get out of my hair!

7. Miss out

Miss out 指“错失机会”，例如：She always misses out, because she's never there.

这个片语常和on连用，表示“错过了……”例如：Ruth came late to the party and missed out on all the fun.