导读：法国西南部的波尔多（Bordeaux）是世界上最著名和最多产的葡萄酒产区之一。其中有12支售价6000美元（约人民币3.8万元）顶级葡萄酒经过了1年太空旅行，如今正在接受研究人员分析，而品酒师们品尝过了在太空陈酿1年的葡萄酒后，各自有不同的解读。

 

It tastes like flowers. It smells like a campfire. What is it? It is a $6,000 bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year on the International Space Station. Researchers in Bordeaux are examining the twelve bottles of wine as well as 320 pieces of grapevines(葡萄藤) that returned to Earth in January. They say the wine and grapevines are part of a longer-term effort to make plants on Earth better resist climate change and disease. Alcohol and glass are not usually permitted on the International Space Station. Each bottle was packed inside a special steel container during the journey.

At a special tasting this month, 12 wine experts tried one of the space-traveled wines at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux. They tasted and smelled the wine together with a similar bottle from the same year that had stayed on Earth. The tasting was blind, meaning the experts did not know which wine they were drinking.

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难句解析

• resist / rɪˈzɪst/ v. 抵御；抵抗
  例句：A healthy diet should help your body resist diseases. 健康的饮食应该帮助你的身体抵抗疾病。
• vintage / ˈvɪntɪdʒ / n. 特定年份(或地方)酿制的酒
  例句：2003 was a particularly fine vintage. 2003年是特别好的酿酒年份。
• Researchers in Bordeaux are examining the twelve bottles of wine as well as 320 pieces of grapevines(葡萄藤) that returned to Earth in January.
  波尔多的研究人员正在检查一月份返回地球的12瓶葡萄酒和320株葡萄藤。that引导定语从句，修饰先行词the twelve bottles of wine as well as 320 pieces of grapevines。
• They tasted and smelled the wine together with a similar bottle from the same year that had stayed on Earth.
  他们尝闻该葡萄酒，还有类似的同年份的留在地球上的一瓶。that引导定语从句，修饰先行词a similar bottle from the same year。
• She said the wine that remained on Earth tasted “a little younger than the one that had been to space.”
  她表示，留在地球上的葡萄酒尝起来“比去过太空的葡萄酒年轻一点”。两个that都引导定语从句，分别修饰先行词the wine 和the one。其中the one指代前面的the wine。
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