EBS Morning Special 4월 30일 일요일: Alice in Wonderland - A Very Strange Tea Party

 

 

끝없이 깊은 바닷속의 랜턴을 달고 다니는 심해 물고기도 신기하지만, 상상만으로도 상상하기 힘든 새까만 우주를 연구하는 우주학자들, 천문학자들이 정말 대단한 것 같습니다. 인간의 호기심이 만들어 내는 또 다른 세상에 그저 감탄만 합니다.

 

 

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1.  NEW YORK TIMES

New Mars Map Lets You ‘See the Whole Planet at Once’
Kenneth Chang
c.2023 The New York Times Company


A new global map of Mars offers a fresh perspective on the planet.

The map, released earlier this month, was pieced together from 3,000 pictures taken by the United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft, and it shows the red planet in its true light.

“These are all natural colors on Mars,” said Dimitra Atri, a research scientist at the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi.

[Expressions]
▶a fresh perspective : 새로운 관점 
▶in its true light : 원래 빛 그대로


The main scientific objective of Hope, which entered orbit around Mars a little more than two years ago, is to study how dust storms and other weather conditions near the surface affect the speed at which Martian air leaks into outer space.
But the orbiter also carries a camera.
When Atri saw the first image sent back by Hope, “I was just blown away by the quality of the image showing the full disk,” he said. “I had never seen Mars like this.”

[Expressions]
▶leak into : ~에 새어 들어가다 
▶be blown away : 깊은 인상을 받다, 아주 놀라다, 감동하다. 


Maps of Mars are nothing new. In the 1890s, American businessman Percival Lowell used his wealth to build the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and as he gazed at Mars through a 24-inch telescope, he sketched what he thought were artificial canals built by a Martian civilization. (He observed spokelike structures on Venus; it was later demonstrated that he may have inadvertently turned his telescope into a mirror and been viewing the back of his own eyeball.)

[Expressions]
▶use one’s wealth : 재산을 사용하다. 
▶spokelike structures : 자전거나 수레바퀴의 바큇살과 같은 구조 
 -spoke : 바큇살
▶inadvertently : 무심코, 우연히 


In the Space Age, numerous spacecraft have flown past Mars or entered orbit around it.
But previous orbiters, like NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have generally swooped much closer to the Martian surface, usually in orbits devised to repeatedly pass above a given location at the same time of day. Those images have provided increasingly sharp details of the surface, including sand dunes, gullies and boulders that had rolled down hills.

[Expressions]
▶swoop : 급습하다, 급강하하다. 
▶increasingly sharp details : 점점 더 뚜렷하고 상세한 모습 


“Those are amazing, spectacular images,” Atri said. “But you don’t see the whole planet at once.” Lighting conditions that varied from place to place made it difficult to put together a single, global view.

Lighting conditions are not a problem for other types of maps. The Global Surveyor carried an altimeter instrument that bounced a laser beam off the surface. By measuring the time the pulse of light took to travel to the surface and back, the instrument could measure the height of every nook and cranny on the surface. Scientists used the data to make a detailed topographic map.

[Expressions]
▶that bounced a laser beam off the surface :  레이저 광선을 표면에서 튕겨낸 것 
▶every nook and cranny : 모든 구석구석 
▶nook  [명사] (아늑하고 조용한) 곳[구석]
▶cranny [명사] (특히 벽에 난 아주 작은) 구멍[틈]


For views in visible light, the Hubble Space Telescope, in orbit around Earth, can see one entire side of Mars. Scientists pieced together many such images into a global map similar to the new map from the Hope spacecraft.
But Mars, at its closest, is nearly 34 million miles from Earth, so the Hubble images lack sharpness. Hope travels around Mars in an elliptical orbit ranging from 12,400 miles to 27,000 miles above the Martian surface. That is considerably higher up than the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, but much closer than Hubble.


[Expressions]
▶lack sharpness : 선명도가 떨어지다.  
▶elliptical : 타원형의 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  TALES & FABLES: Alice in Wonderland / A Very Strange Tea Party

 

# 이상한 나라의 앨리스 영화포스터

 

 

Oh, when I was a child I was knocked over a barrel by the works of Lewis Carroll. So astonishing was his poetry and prose that I got lost in it for hours. I may not have been Alice, but I sure felt I had fallen down the rabbit hole as I dreamt of angry queens and wise caterpillars. So why not take a moment or two to celebrate him and his most famous creation. Grab yourself a cup of tea and come with me as we witness Alice encounter the strangest of parties.

Alice was already far into her journey through Wonderland. She'd shrunk and grown, met all sorts of curious Characters and witnessed a baby change into a piglet, and the Cheshire Cat had been telling her all sorts of odd things as to what she must to and where she must go. The latest of which was to insist that she must either visit a Hatter or a March Hare. It didn't matter which as they were both completely mad.

Aliceﾠwas not so keen on visiting either, but the grinning cat insisted:
"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. Well, you must be or else you wouldn't have come here!"

Alice wasn't sure of what to make of that, but since she'd seen hatters before, perhaps it might be best to pay the March Hare a visit. After all it was almost May, so perhaps he wouldn't be quite as mad as he was in March.

 

[Expressions]
- what to make of that : 을 어떻게 생각해야 좋을지
- pay someone a visit : 누구를 찾아가다, 방문하다
-rabbit은 작은 토끼, Hare는 산토끼, 귀도 몸도 큰 토끼



So, off she went leaving the Cheshire Cat behind her, or rather leaving his grin, for that was all that was left of him after he faded away.

"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, " thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"

Soon she came to the house of the March Hare. At least she thought it was because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. And right in front of the house, under the shade of a tree there was a table all set for tea and around it sat the March Hare and the Hatter and a Dormouse, who was sitting between them, fast asleep.

The table was large, but all three were crowded together at one corner of it and cried out "No room! No room!" When they saw Alice coming. Not to be put off, she sat herself down in a large armchair and the March Hare offered her some wine.

"I don't see any wine, " remarked Alice.

"There isn't any, " said the hare. Alice thought it not very civil for him to have offered it, but the March Hare countered by telling her it wasn't very civil to sit down without being invited.ﾠ

 

[Expressions]
- not very civil : 예의 바르지 않다


The Hatter then said something quite curious, a riddle of sorts: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Which had Alice most perplexed. She tried to remember all she could about ravens and writing desks, which wasn't much at all.

TheﾠHatter asked if she had guessed the riddle yet, and Alice said she hadn't, so what was the answer?

"I haven't the slightest idea, " said the Hatter.

"Nor I, " said the March Hare.

Alice sighed wearily, "I think you might do something better with the time than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers."

"If you knew Time as well as I do, " said the Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about waking it. It's him."

"I don't know what you mean, " said Alice.

"Of course you don't!" The Hatter said with contempt. "I dare say you never even spoke to Time! I used to, but we quarreled last March at a great concert given by the Queen of Hearts. I had to sing - Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! You know the song, perhaps?"

"I've heard something like it, " said Alice.

[Expressions]

- raven [ˈreɪvn] 1. [명사] 큰 까마귀, 2. [형용사][문예체] 검고 윤기 나는

- of sorts : 신통찮은 [보잘것없는] (=sorts of something)
- sigh wearily : 피곤한 듯이 한숨을 쉬다
- dare say : 아마 …일 것이다 (=maybe I think)
 

"It goes on, you know, " he continued, "Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle…"

At this the Dormouse began singing in his sleep - "Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle…" and went on so long they had to cover him with a tea cosy to make him stop.

"Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse, " said the Hatter, "when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, 'He's killing time! Off with his head!'"

"How dreadfully savage!" Exclaimed Alice.

"And ever since that, " the Hatter continued mournfully, "he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now."

"So that's why you're having tea?" Asked Alice.

"Yes, it's always tea time and there's no time to wash anything up, " replied the Hatter.

"So that's why you keep moving round, I suppose, " said Alice and wondered what would happen when they got round to the beginning again. But her train of thought was interrupted as both the March Hare and the Hatter decided it would be a good idea to wake up the Dormouse for a story. Shouting at him to tell them one at once.

[Expressions]
- tea cosy : 차 주전자 덮개
- bawl out : 고함지르다, 대성통곡하다
- dreadfully(very, 영국에서 많이 사용) savage : 끔찍하게 포악하다
- mournfully : 슬픔에 잠겨
- train of thought : 꼬리를 물고 이어지는 생각

# Tea Cosy

The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes, sleepily insisted he had been awake the whole time and began recounting a tale about three little sisters who lived at the bottom of a well, a treacle well no less, but just as he was getting to the most interesting part the Hatter stood and demanded they move one place along as he wanted a clean cup.

The Hatter moved one seat down and the Dormouse followed and the March Hare took the Dormouse's place and Alice, quite reluctantly sat where the March Hare had just been. The only one who benefitted was the Hatter, Alice on the other hand was left with a dirty plate and cup already used by her three companions.

Alice asked that the Dormouse continue with his story and so he did, telling of the three little sisters learning to draw. Drawing all manner of things that began with M, such as mouse-traps and the moon and memory and muchness.

Aliceﾠwas quite confused at the idea of drawing a muchness and interjected - "I don't think…"

"Then you shouldn't talk, " interrupted the Hatter.

[Expressions]

- treacle [ˈtriːkl]  1. [명사] 당밀, 2. [명사] (=golden syrup)

- recount : (특히 자기가 경험한 것에 대해) 이야기하다 [말하다], 회상하면서 이야기하다
- interjected : 말참견을 하다


Well, that was one rudeness too far for the young girl. She got up in great disgust at the ungentlemanly behavior of the Hatter and walked off.

The Dormouse fell asleep instantly and the other two seemed not to take the least bit of notice of her leaving. Alice looked back once or twice, half hoping they might call after her, but the last time she saw them they were far too busy trying to stick the Dormouse in the teapot to bother with her.

"At any rate I'll never go there again!" Said Alice, as she made her way through the wood. "That was the stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life!"

And so she went on and on until she came to a tree with a door in the trunk. That's very curious, though Alice, but everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.

And so she did. But what was through that door?

It was the door to a garden and inside the garden was a large rose tree. Beautiful white roses which were being painted red by three gardeners. Why paint roses? Well, that's a tale for another time, for Alice was about to meet the fearsome Queen of Hearts who was as passionate as her sigil and did not suffer fools gladly. The Hatter and the March Hare were lucky that she was not a guest at their everlasting tea party.

[Expressions]
- a tale for another time : 딴 때에 들려줄/살펴볼 이야기
- not suffer fools gladly : 어리석은 사람들을 못 봐주다

- sigil [sídƷil] 인발, 도장, 막도장(seal, signet)
- everlasting (=eternal)