Is There Life in Outer Space

IS THERE LIFE IN COTER SPACE?

别的星球上有生命吗？

Bears and birds hugs and toads, trees, fowers, lpopl, andlots of other things lhire on planret farth. Do they live anywhere else? Do plants and animals live onthe moon? Do they live on Mars or Jupiter or any other planet? Or do they live far away out among the stars?For a long time people have wondered about that. Maybe you have, too.

无论熊或是鸟，虫或是蛙，还是树啊、花啊、我们人类，以及其他各种各样有生命的东西，都生活在地球上。 它们还生活在其他的地方吗?植物和动物生活在月球上吗?它们生活在火星或者木星，甚至太阳系其他星球上吗? 还是说，它们还生活在宇宙更遥远的星球上?很久以来，人类一直在思考这个问题。也许你也想过，对不对?

More than a hundred years ago a newspaper said plants andanimals lived on the moon. An astronomer could see themthrough a big new telescope. There were trees on the moon, the newspaper said. Big melonsgrew on them. Animals that looked like small buffaloes grazedbeneath the trees. Animals that looked like bearswalked around on their hind legs.

一百多年前,有一份报纸上这样说:月球上也有动物和植物，天文学家通过一架当时新发明的巨型望远镜看见了它们。 报纸上还说，月球上长着很多树，树上结着又大又圆的瓜。 有很多像小水牛一样的动物在树下吃草。还有一些像熊一样的动物，用两条后肢走来走去。

There were people, too. They had hair all overtheir bodies, and they had wings. The moonpeople were friendly, the story said. Someof them sat near a pond feeding melonsto one another. The story wasn't true. But for a long time, people believed in these moon creatures.

球上也有人类。它们浑身都是毛，还长着一对翅膀。 这篇报道还说，月球人非常友好，有些就坐在池塘边，和乐融融地在一起吃着瓜。 这个说法当然不是真的，但是有很长一段时间，人类都相信在月球上生活着这样的生物。

People also believed a radio story that said Martians hadlanded on Earth. The Martians had big heads and small bodies. They came in spaceships. They were not friendy. Once they landed, they spread out and attacked peoplein towns and villages.

人们还相信一个从收音机里听来的故事。 这个故事说，火星人早就到过地球，它们长着大大的脑袋和小小的身子，是坐飞船来的。 它们很不友好，一到地球上便分散开，在城市和乡村到处攻击人类。

By the 1960's, only a few people still believedthere were Martians or moon people. In 1969, everyone knew for sure that there was no lifeof any kind on the moon. That was the year NeilArmstrong and Edwin Aldrin walked on the moon.

可是到了二十世纪六十年代，就只有少数人才相信火星人或者月球人的故事了。 一九六九年，人类确信，月球上什么生物都没有。 因为在那一年，美国宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和埃德温·奥尔德林登陆月球了。