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This short paragraph is taken from a China Daily article about a new kind of rollercoaster that may or may not be built. <!--more-->

<img src="http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/20120218-INLINE.jpg" alt="Advanced Chinese News Stories and Reading Practice Passages" title="Advanced Chinese News Stories and Reading Exercises" width="100" height="100" class="imgborder alignleft" />I'm only translating the first paragraph here, if you want to read the rest, <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hqzx/2012-02/11/content_14581576.htm">the complete article</a> can be found on the China Daily site.

One of the fun words in this paragraph is 模拟舱 [pinyin]mo2 ni3 cang1[/pinyin], which means "simulator", like a flight simulator. In English, "simulator" can refer to anything that simulates, so this could be a combat simulator that's really just a video game on a flat panel, but the Chinese word here is more specific. 模拟 means "simulate", but 舱 [pinyin]cang1[/pinyin] means a kind of cabin, like an airplane cabin, that you can step into and ride in. 

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失重 - [pinyin]shi1 zhong4[/pinyin] - Weightlessness
模拟舱 - [pinyin]mo2 ni3 cang1[/pinyin] - Simulator / simulation cabin
遥不可及 - [pinyin]yao2 bu4 ke3 ji2[/pinyin] - Unattainable
研发 - [pinyin]yan2 fa1[/pinyin] - Research and development
过山车 - [pinyin]guo4 shan1 che1[/pinyin] - Rollercoaster
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目前若想体验完全<strong>失重</strong>的感觉，除非成为一名航天员，或是搭乘失重<strong>模拟舱</strong>，否则这将是一个<strong>遥不可及</strong>的梦想。近日美国一家设计公司提出了一个新想法，他们计划<strong>研发</strong>一款能让乘客体验8秒钟完全失重感觉的<strong>过山车</strong>。如果资金充足，这款新型过山车会在2013年底前与世人见面。
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At present, if you want to experience what it feels like to be weightless, you can only become an astronaut 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. 
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