9th.md

• These are so lovely.How are you rendering them?
• imminent 即将发生的

Chernobyl

• the name of the authors have been redacted.

  1. redact : 编篡；
  2. redacted : 被篡改

• The missing pages apparently refer to a positive void coefficient.

• In 1975,in RBMK reactor in Leningrad,a fuel channel ruptured.

  rupture : 破裂；爆裂

• When an RBMK runs at low power,it's notoriously unstable.Prone to swings in reactivity.

  1. notorious : 声名狼藉的；
  2. prone : adj.易于遭受：likely or liable to suffer from,do,or experience something unpleasant or regrettable.
  3. swing : 摇晃；

• The Chernobyl staff stalled the reactor during the test.

  stall

  停顿；抛锚；差不多就是“使停止”的意思：to stop making progress.

• What you're proposing is that Legasov humiliate a nation that is obsessed with not being humiliated.

  obsess

  使痴迷；使迷恋

  • be obsessed with sth. :痴迷于某物

• contaminate ：污染；

• contaminated ： 受污染的

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• what do you reckon?
• 你的打算是什么？