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24.08.31 Birds Help Scientists Understand Turbulence

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:18

When you look up into the sky, the air can seem calm and still, but it is always on the move.

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ฐจ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ์š”ํ•ด ๋ณด์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* on the move : ์›€์ง์ด๋Š”, ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋Š”

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If you've been in an airplane, you have probably experienced turbulence, which is "bumpy" air.

๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํƒ€ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์•„๋งˆ๋„ '์šธํ‰๋ถˆํ‰ํ•œ' ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์ธ ๋‚œ๊ธฐ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด ๋ดค์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* turbulence : ๋‚œ๊ธฐ๋ฅ˜โ€‹

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Turbulence can be unpredictable and dangerous when it occurs in a cloudless sky.

๋‚œ๊ธฐ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋ฆ„์ด ์—†๋Š” ํ•˜๋Š˜์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ๋•Œ ์˜ˆ์ธก์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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This is why scientists are studying how birds fly through rough air.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ƒˆ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* This is why... : ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ~ ์ด์œ ์˜ˆ์š”, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ~์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹

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They are equipping high-flying birds with sensors to study this natural phenomena.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž์—ฐ ํ˜„์ƒ์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋†’์ด ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„ผ์„œ๋ฅผ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* equip something with something : ~์— ...์„ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ค

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With several recent incidents in which planes were briefly out of control, the data collected from birds would be helpful for pilots to keep their passengers safe.

์ตœ๊ทผ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต์ œ ๋ถˆ๋Šฅ ์ƒํƒœ์— ๋น ์ง„ ๋ช‡ ๊ฑด์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ง‘๋œ ์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์Šน๊ฐ์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* out of control : ํ†ต์ œ ๋ถˆ๋Šฅ์˜

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