Rubik's cube was invented in 1974 and its popularity exploded when it was exported from Hungary in 1980.(魔方发明于1974年,1980年从匈牙利出口后,其受欢迎程度激增。)
This is where a culture of social responsibility around Cube Sats becomes important.(这就是围绕着CubeSats技术的社会责任文化变得很重要的原因。)
The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.(第一个立方卫星是在2000年代初创建的,目的是使斯坦福大学的研究生能够设计、建造、测试和操作具有与苏联人造卫星类似功能的航天器。)
Located on the shore of Sullivan's Island off the coast of South Carolina, the award-winning-cube-shaped beach house was built to replace one smashed to pieces by Hurricane Hugo 10 years ago.(这座获奖的立方体海滩别墅位于南卡罗来纳海岸外的苏利文岛的岸边,它是用来取代10年前被飓风“雨果”摧毁的那一座。)
For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small Cube Sats could cost as little as $3,000 to put in orbit.(例如,亚利桑那州立大学的一个研究小组最近声称,他们开发的小型立方体卫星进入轨道的成本可能只有3000美元。)
On February 7th, Alcatel-Lucent unveiled technology that reduces the size of a wireless base station from a filing cabinet to that of a Rubik's cube.(阿尔卡特朗讯公司于2月7日公布了一项新技术,该技术能够将无线基站的体积从一个文件柜缩小至魔方一般。)
The "Cube" here simply refers to the satellite's shape.(这里的“立方体”只是指卫星的形状。)
She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly.(她把一冰块儿含在嘴里,并嘎吱嘎吱地大声嚼起来。)
I call it the ice cube.(我叫它冰块。)
The most common CubeSat is a 10cm cube, so small that a single CubeSat could easily be mistaken for a paperweight on your desk.(最常见的CubeSat是一个边长10厘米的立方体,小到容易被误认为是你桌上的一个镇纸。)