1月3日上午10点26分，嫦娥四号月球探测器成功着陆月球背面,，并通过“鹊桥”中继星传回了世界第一张近距离拍摄的月背影像图，揭开了古老月背的神秘面纱。
一起来看几段外刊的相关报道,学学“在月球背面着陆”用英文怎么说。
《纽约时报》：China reached a milestone in space exploration on Thursday, landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in history, the country’s space agency announced.
- milestone重要事件；重要阶段；转折点；里程碑；同义词landmark ；常见搭配：reach/achieve a milestone
- land ；在这里是动词，表示“使…登陆”；
- the far side of the moon：月球背面
The landing of the probe, called Chang’e-4 after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology, is one in a coming series of missions that underscore the country’s ambitions to join is one— and even lead — the space race.
- probe：名词，表示a space probe即“航天探测器，太空探测器”；也可以作动词，表示“调查；打探，探究；探测，探查”。the probe也是第一段“a vehicle”的替换词。
- underscore： to emphasize the fact that something is important or true强调，同义词underline；
第二段就一个句子，句子主干是The landing is one（mission），具体来分析一下：①The landing of the probe, ②called Chang’e-4 ③after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology,④ is one⑤ in a coming series of missions ⑥that underscore the country’s ambitions ⑦to join— and even lead — the space race.其中，①是整个句子的主语，②是过去分词作后置定语，修饰的是the probe，③after在这里的用法是“To be named after someone means to be given the same name as them. 以 (同样的名字命名)”，指这个探测器是“以中国神话故事里月亮女神“嫦娥”的名字来命名的”，④是这个句子的系表部分，⑤介词短语，⑥是定语从句修饰限定missions，⑦不定式作后置定语，修饰ambitions.
参考译文：中国用神话故事里的月亮女神“嫦娥”来命名这个探测器，即“嫦娥四号”。中国未来还有一系列雄心勃勃的太空计划，彰显了中国加入太空竞赛、甚至在这场竞赛中领先其他国家的雄心壮志，而嫦娥四号的着陆还只是开始而已。
The Chang’e-4 is the first to touch down on the side of the moon that perpetually faces away from the Earth.
- 这里出现表达“着陆月球背面”的第二种表达：touch down on the side of the moon that perpetually faces away from the Earth.
- perpetually ：adv. 永恒地，持久地
再看《华盛顿邮报》：The moon is tidally locked to Earth, rotating at the same rate that it orbits our planet, so the far side - or the "dark side" - is never visible from Earth. Previous spacecraft have seen the far side of the moon but none has landed on it.
The landing "lifted the mysterious veil" from the far side of the moon, and "opened a new chapter in human lunar exploration", the broadcaster said.
- lift the mysterious veil揭开神秘面纱
《卫报》也有一篇文章对 "dark side"进行了说明：The moon’s far side is sometimes known as the dark side, although it is not darker than the near side in any literal sense. It undergoes the same phases of illumination by the Sun as the side facing Earth. But because the moon spins on its axis at exactly the same rate as it orbits Earth, one side remains permanently out of view.
- literal字面意义的；常见搭配literal meaning/sense/interpretation
- illumination 光亮，照亮
月球被地球潮汐锁定，月球公转一周的时间恰好与月球自转一周的时间相等，因而我们在地球上的人，就永远只能看到月球的一面（正面），而不能看到另一面（背面）。
- 所以“着陆月球背面”又有另一种表达“touch down/land on the far side/"dark side" of the moon”或者” touch down/land on the side of the moon that is never visible from Earth”
