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It used to be said that more people had walked on the surface of the Moon than had dived to the deepest part of Earth's oceans. Not anymore.

Kelly Walsh, the son of the great ocean explorer Don Walsh, has just descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, almost 11km down in the Pacific.

He made the dive 60 years after his father created history in doing so.

It means Kelly is the 12th person to visit the trench floor - the same as the number of Apollo moonwalkers.

语言点

surface n. 表面；台面；桌面

· 词根：sur- 在……表面/外面

· surgery n. 外科手术

dive vi. 跳水，潜水

· dive into the water: 跳水

· snorkeling n. 浮潜

· scuba diving: 深潜

· submersible n. 潜水器

explorer n. 探险家

· explore v. 探险

descend vt. 下降，向下倾斜（go/come down）；（文学作品中）降临

· The plane descends.飞机下降。

· The hill descends. 山开始出现陡坡。

· Night began to descend. 黑夜降临了。

Mariana Trench: 马里亚纳海沟

· trench n. 壕沟，战壕，海沟

trench floor: 沟底

· ocean/valley floor: 海/谷底

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