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中国成功完成了其航天器的首次载人交会对接任务，这是中国欲在2020年前后发射空间站计划的重要一步。周一，神舟九号飞船与天宫一号空间实验室成功对接。

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China successfully achieved its first manned space docking, an important step in the country's quest to launch a space station by around 2020.The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Monday docked with China's Tiangong-1 space laboratory.

 

¹quest /ˈkwɛst/ noun

plural quests

 

[count] formal + literary

 1: a journey made in search of something
▪ They went on a quest for gold.

 

2: a long and difficult effort to find or do something
▪ a quest for answers

 ▪ The team's quest to win a championship finally came to an end.

 ▪ He refuses to give up his quest to discover the truth.

 

²quest verb

quests; quest·ed; quest·ing

 

[no obj] formal + literary: to go on a journey to find something
▪ They were questing for gold.

 

in quest of

: searching for (something)
▪ She is in quest of the perfect wine.