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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Baby monitor in Illinois picks up live video from NASA mission 伊利諾州的嬰兒監視器收到太空總署任務的即時畫面
◎胡立宗
A mother of two in this suburb of Chicago does not have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission.
一名住在芝加哥近郊、兩個小孩的母親不必看新聞，就可以知道太空總署太空任務的最新進度。
She just flips on her baby monitor.
她只要打開嬰兒監視器就成了。
Since Sunday, Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis.
從週日開始，梅林格的嬰兒監視器就收到來自亞特蘭提斯號太空梭內的黑白畫面。
"Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you’ll usually see," said the elementary school science teacher. "No one would ever expect this." Live video of the mission is available on NASA’s Web site, so it is possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere nearby.
「用過嬰兒監視器的人都知道會看到什麼（畫面），」這位國小科學老師說。「沒人想到會看到這種影像。」太空總署將這次任務的即時影像放在官網上，所以監視器可能是接收到來自附近的訊號。
"It’s not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don’t hear of it often - if at all."
「畫面不是直接來自太空梭，」太空總署發言人迪恩說。「我們覺得這種情形非常有趣，而且不常聽到（這樣的事）─可以說根本沒聽說過。」
Meilinger silenced disbelieving co-workers by bringing in a video of the monitor to show her class on Tuesday, her students’ last day of school. At home, 3-month-old Jack and 2-year-old Rachel do not quite understand what their parents are watching.
梅林格週二把監視器的錄影畫面帶給全班學生看，讓一堆懷疑她的同事都啞口無言。在家裡，3個月大的傑克和2歲大的瑞秋則不太瞭解他們的父母到底在看什麼。
新聞辭典
pick up：片語，撿起、收拾、學到、獲得。pick up live video指收到即時影像。另pick somebody up或 pick up somebody，意思是去接某人。
turn on：片語，打開，與文中 flip on同義。
if at all：習慣用法，如果發生過的話，如果真的有的話。例句︰It rains hard if it rains at all.（真有下雨的話，絕對下得很大。）
