Professor Ronald Bracewell, a leading American radio astronomer,argued in Nature that such a superior civilization, on a visit to our own solar system,
假如有如此高级文明生命访问了我们的太阳系，
新概念英语第四册
Lesson 43 Are there strangers in space
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 教授;（大学的）讲师，教员;自称者，宣称者;
💡 pro在前面+fess说+or人→在前面说话的人→教授
"With the words he handed Professor Wang a tube."
说着他交给王教授一个试管.
近义：instructor, master, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, teacher, beak
反义：schoolboy, schoolchild, student, trainee, undergraduate, scholar
adj. 重要的，主要的;前列的;首位的;
n. 行距;铅框;
v. 领导（lead的ing形式）;
💡 lead领导 + ing...的 → 指导的；最主要的
"a leading human rights campaigner"
人权运动的主要领导人
近义：transportation, conduct, conducting, conduction, driving, interlineation
n. 无线电;收音机;无线电广播台;无线电收发报机;
vt.& vi. 用无线电发送讯息;作无线电广播;用X射线拍照;
💡 radi 表”射线,辐射,广播”
"The President gave an address to the nation over the radio."
总统向全国发表广播演说.
近义：transmit, radiophonics, radiotelephony
n. 自然;天性;天理;类型;
💡 nat出生的+ure状态→出生状态→天性
"the adversarial nature of the two-party system"
两党制的对抗性
近义：milieu, surroundings, circumambiency, medium, ecosystem, environment
adj. （级别、地位）较高的;（在质量等方面）较好的;（数量）较多的;上等的;
n. 上级;较好的人[事物]，优胜者;修道院院长;方丈;
💡 super在上面+ior表形容词，较...的 →在上面的，超越的
"vastly superior"
强得多
近义：head, provost, chairman, chief, director, higher
反义：servient, subaltern, subordinate, understrapper, wo, sub