Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space
A bilingual Dutch story with sentence-by-sentence English translation. Level: INTERMEDIATE (CEFR). Tap any word in the DuoBook reader for an instant translation.
Elon Musk en Jeff Bezos strijden momenteel om de ruimte te domineren.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are currently competing to dominate space.
Beide mannen hebben zeer ambitieuze plannen voor de toekomst.
Both men have very ambitious plans for the future.
Zij willen kolonies bouwen op de maan.
They want to build colonies on the moon.
Zij zijn ook van plan om waardevolle grondstoffen uit de ruimte te winnen.
They also intend to mine valuable resources from space.
Duizenden nieuwe satellieten zullen binnenkort om onze planeet draaien.
Thousands of new satellites will soon orbit our planet.
Hun grootste concurrentie is simpelweg elkaar in deze race.
Their main competition is simply each other in this race.
Deze rivaliteit stimuleert de snelle ontwikkeling van nieuwe technologieën.
This rivalry drives the rapid development of new technologies.
De toekomst van ruimtevaart verandert door hun inspanningen.
The future of space travel changes because of their efforts.
Vocabulary (Dutch)
- competing
- strijden
- ambitious
- ambitieus
- colonies
- kolonies
- resources
- grondstoffen
- satellite
- satelliet
- rivalry
- rivaliteit
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