Sputnik

常見例句

That is expected to cause widespread hand-wringing, akin to America’s “Sputnik moment,” when the Soviet Union beat it to become the first country to launch a satellite.
這無疑會像美國因蘇聯(lián)發(fā)射了第一顆人造衛(wèi)星而開始衛(wèi)星競賽一樣在日本國內引發(fā)大規(guī)模的焦慮情緒。
He has said recently that he is guided by a “north star”, that America is passing through another “Sputnik moment”, that he intends to reform the tax code and tackle the deficit.
最近，他談到他以“北極星”為指引，美國正在錯失另一個“人造衛(wèi)星的時機”，他計劃改革免稅代碼解決赤字問題。
After all, the government-owned reactor was fired up in 1957, the same year that the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and Elvis Presley starred in “Jailhouse Rock”.
畢竟，這個政府所有的反應堆是在1957年就啟用了的，那一年蘇聯(lián)發(fā)射了人造地球衛(wèi)星，貓王主演了《搖滾監(jiān)獄》。

The eighty-three kilogram satellite, called Sputnik, had two radios that sent signals as it circled the world.
The Soviet successes with its Sputnik satellites caused the United States to change its space plans.
The attempt was made on December sixth, soon after the first two Sputnik launches.

The Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4th 1957.
ECONOMIST: The race to the moon
His advisers fret that federal research and development has fallen sharply since the Sputnik era.
ECONOMIST: Innovation
More than anything, though, he was drawn to science by the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
ECONOMIST: Richard Smalley