A robot begins removal of melted fuel from the Fukushima nuclear plant 福岛核电站清理作业重启，机器人将取回核燃料熔块样本 A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom. The robot’s trip into the Unit 2 reactor is a crucial initial step for what comes next — a daunting, decades-long process to decommission the plant and deal with large amounts of highly radioactive melted fuel inside three reactors that were damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. 周二，一个长型机器人进入日本福岛核电站一个受损的反应堆，开始了为期两周的高风险任务，将首次从底部取回少量熔化的燃料碎片。 这次机器人进入2号反应堆的行动是接下来工作的关键初始步骤——这是一项艰巨的、长达数十年的过程，目的是使核电站退役，并处理三个反应堆内大量熔化的高放射性燃料，这些反应堆在2011年的大地震和海啸中受损。 → high stake 美 [haɪ steɪk] 高风险：指涉及高额赌注或重大利益的事情，风险较大。 → retrieve 英 [rɪˈtriːv] 美 [rɪˈtriːv] v. 找回，收回；检索（储存于计算机的信息）；（狗等）衔回（物品、猎物）；挽救，挽回；回忆，追忆；收绕钓鱼线 n. （尤指中枪猎物的）找回；收绕钓鱼线； 恢复的可能性；检索 If you retrieve something, you get it back from the place where you left it. 找回; 取回 The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island. 那些人正试图找回该军队撤离这个岛时留下的武器。 → It USES only a tiny amount of gas. 它只使用极少量的汽油。 → daunting 英 [ˈdɔːntɪŋ] 美 [ˈdɔːntɪŋ] adj. 使人畏惧的，使人气馁的 Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it. 使人畏缩的 He and his wife Jane were faced with the daunting task of restoring the gardens to their former splendour. 他和他的妻子简当时面临着恢复花园昔日风采的艰巨任务。 daunt 英 [dɔːnt] 美 [dɑːnt] v. 使胆怯，使气馁；威吓 → decommission 英 [ˌdiːkəˈmɪʃn] 美 [ˌdiːkəˈmɪʃn] v. 关闭，拆除（核武器等）；使（船）退役，报废 When something such as a nuclear reactor or a large machine is decommissioned, it is taken out of use and taken apart because it is no longer going to be used. 停止使用 The ships were to be decommissioned. 这些船即将被停止使用。