{"id":7815,"date":"2019-10-04T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/a-new-kind-of-rollercoaster\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:11:11","slug":"a-new-kind-of-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/a-new-kind-of-rollercoaster\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Kind of rollercoaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This short paragraph is taken from a China Daily article a<em><\/em>bout a new kind of rollercoaster that may or may not be built.<br \/>  Advanced Chinese News Stories and Reading Practice PassagesI&rsquo;m o<em><\/em>nly translating the first paragraph here, if you want to read the rest, the complete article can be found on the China Daily site.<br \/>  One of the fun words in this paragraph is \u6a21\u62df\u8231 m&oacute; n\u01d0 c\u0101ng, which means &ldquo;simulator&rdquo;, like a flight simulator. In English, &ldquo;simulator&rdquo; can refer to anything that simulates, so this could be a combat simulator that&rsquo;s really just a video game on a flat panel, but the Chinese word here is more specific. \u6a21\u62df means &ldquo;simulate&rdquo;, but \u8231 c\u0101ng means a kind of cabin, like an airplane cabin, that you can step into and ride in.<br \/>  Click to Listen<br \/>  \u5931\u91cd &ndash; sh\u012b zh&ograve;ng &ndash; Weightlessness<br \/>  \u6a21\u62df\u8231 &ndash; m&oacute; n\u01d0 c\u0101ng &ndash; Simulator \/ simulation cabin<br \/>  \u9065\u4e0d\u53ef\u53ca &ndash; y&aacute;o b&ugrave; k\u011b j&iacute; &ndash; Unattainable<br \/>  \u7814\u53d1 &ndash; y&aacute;n f\u0101 &ndash; Research and development<br \/>  \u8fc7\u5c71\u8f66 &ndash; gu&ograve; sh\u0101n ch\u0113 &ndash; Rollercoaster<br \/>  \u76ee\u524d\u82e5\u60f3\u4f53\u9a8c\u5b8c\u5168\u5931\u91cd\u7684\u611f\u89c9\uff0c\u9664\u975e\u6210\u4e3a\u4e00\u540d\u822a\u5929\u5458\uff0c\u6216\u662f\u642d\u4e58\u5931\u91cd\u6a21\u62df\u8231\uff0c\u5426\u5219\u8fd9\u5c06\u662f\u4e00\u4e2a\u9065\u4e0d\u53ef\u53ca\u7684\u68a6\u60f3\u3002\u8fd1\u65e5\u7f8e\u56fd\u4e00\u5bb6\u8bbe\u8ba1\u516c\u53f8\u63d0\u51fa\u4e86\u4e00\u4e2a\u65b0\u60f3\u6cd5\uff0c\u4ed6\u4eec\u8ba1\u5212\u7814\u53d1\u4e00\u6b3e\u80fd\u8ba9\u4e58\u5ba2\u4f53\u9a8c8\u79d2\u949f\u5b8c\u5168\u5931\u91cd\u611f\u89c9\u7684\u8fc7\u5c71\u8f66\u3002\u5982\u679c\u8d44\u91d1\u5145\u8db3\uff0c\u8fd9\u6b3e\u65b0\u578b\u8fc7\u5c71\u8f66\u4f1a\u57282013\u5e74\u5e95\u524d\u4e0e\u4e16\u4eba\u89c1\u9762\u3002<br \/>  Hide English &raquo;<br \/>  At present, if you want to experience what it feels like to be weightless, you can o<em><\/em>nly become an astro<em><\/em>naut or ride in an zero-gravity simulator, otherwise this dream is out of reach. But today, an American design company proposed a new idea, they have a plan to research and develop a rollercoaster that would allow passengers to experience weightlessness for 8 seconds. If there is sufficient capital, this new type of roller coaster would be introduced to the people of the world in late 2013.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2973184015\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short paragraph is taken from a China Daily article about a new kind of rollercoaster that may or may<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-7815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading","tag-chinese-news"],"views":202,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}