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最近，世界著名的潜水员法比安·库斯托计划建造一个海底国际空间站。目前，他正在努力筹集资金建造水下实验室，以帮助科学家们发现新的海洋物种，更好地了解海洋和气候的变化。
难词探意
1. aquanaut /??kw?n??t/ n. 海底观察员
2. conservationist /?k?ns??ve???n?st/ n. 自然环境保护主义者
3. dock /d?k/ v. （使船）进港;进入船坞
4. hollow /?h?l??/ adj. 空心的;中空的
5. inhabitant /?n?h?b?t?nt/ n. 居民
Fabien Cousteau， a world?famous aquanaut， is planning to build an undersea version of the International Space Station. At present， he is trying to raise money to build Proteus， an underwater laboratory and living space for scientists to help us discover new marine species and better understand oceans and climate change.
Fabien Cousteau grew up exploring the oceans on his grandfathers ships. Like his grandfather， a former French naval officer， ocean explorer， inventor， scientist， filmmaker， photographer， author and conservationist， hes now an aquanaut， conservationist and documentary filmmaker.
In 2014， he lived for 31 days aboard the Aquarius， the worlds only underwater research laboratory， which is 19 meters underwater， 14.5 kilometers off the coast of Florida， US. He and his team did scientific research， filmed their activities and held virtual classroom sessions with students around the world. The mission was called Mission 31.
After understanding how much work could be done in just 31 days， Mr Cousteau now wants to build a permanent underwater habitat called Proteus. Plans for Proteus are for it to cover an area of just over 371 sqm， or about twice the size of an average house in Australia. That would make it three or four times the size of any other previous underwater human habitats.
Proteus would be based on a spiral（螺旋形的） shape， with legs anchoring it to the sea floor off the coast of Cura?ao in the Caribbean， 18 meters underwater. It would be made up of pods（吊艙） and a central docking station， which Jacques Cousteau called a “liquid door”， for submarines to attach to each other so as to transfer people and supplies. One of the challenges will be to get it underwater， because a hollow structure filled with air will float.
Proteus could hold twelve people at a time for thirty days with room for work， exercise， sleeping and living. Just like on the International Space Station， there are practical problems with living in an environment new to humans. There needs to be UV light， for instance， to help keep the inhabitants healthy， and a way to grow and cook food.
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难词探意
1. aquanaut /??kw?n??t/ n. 海底观察员
2. conservationist /?k?ns??ve???n?st/ n. 自然环境保护主义者
3. dock /d?k/ v. （使船）进港;进入船坞
4. hollow /?h?l??/ adj. 空心的;中空的
5. inhabitant /?n?h?b?t?nt/ n. 居民
Fabien Cousteau， a world?famous aquanaut， is planning to build an undersea version of the International Space Station. At present， he is trying to raise money to build Proteus， an underwater laboratory and living space for scientists to help us discover new marine species and better understand oceans and climate change.
Fabien Cousteau grew up exploring the oceans on his grandfathers ships. Like his grandfather， a former French naval officer， ocean explorer， inventor， scientist， filmmaker， photographer， author and conservationist， hes now an aquanaut， conservationist and documentary filmmaker.
In 2014， he lived for 31 days aboard the Aquarius， the worlds only underwater research laboratory， which is 19 meters underwater， 14.5 kilometers off the coast of Florida， US. He and his team did scientific research， filmed their activities and held virtual classroom sessions with students around the world. The mission was called Mission 31.
After understanding how much work could be done in just 31 days， Mr Cousteau now wants to build a permanent underwater habitat called Proteus. Plans for Proteus are for it to cover an area of just over 371 sqm， or about twice the size of an average house in Australia. That would make it three or four times the size of any other previous underwater human habitats.
Proteus would be based on a spiral（螺旋形的） shape， with legs anchoring it to the sea floor off the coast of Cura?ao in the Caribbean， 18 meters underwater. It would be made up of pods（吊艙） and a central docking station， which Jacques Cousteau called a “liquid door”， for submarines to attach to each other so as to transfer people and supplies. One of the challenges will be to get it underwater， because a hollow structure filled with air will float.
Proteus could hold twelve people at a time for thirty days with room for work， exercise， sleeping and living. Just like on the International Space Station， there are practical problems with living in an environment new to humans. There needs to be UV light， for instance， to help keep the inhabitants healthy， and a way to grow and cook food.
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