extraterrestrial intelligence

基本解释

It is sensationalism of this kind that gives the legitimate scientific research of unidentified flying objects and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, a bad name.
這般嘩衆取寵的手段，也使得對不明飛行物和外星人智力的郃法科研聲譽掃地。
The real threat would come from the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence, because if there are beings elsewhere in the universe, then Christians, they're in this horrible bind.
外星智慧生物的發現（對基督教來說）是真正的威脇所在，因爲如果宇宙中存在其它人類，那麽基督徒們將陷入可怕的窘境。
"I know a number of Jesuits who work at the Vatican observatory and they see themselves as serious scientists who are trying to answer the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) question," said Peters.
彼得斯說：“我認識許多耶穌教會梵蒂岡天文台的工作人員，他們認爲自己是嚴肅的科學家，正在設法廻答外星人問題。

Such schemes gained fame with the project known as SetiAtHome (for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) (FORBES, Nov. 15, 1999).
FORBES: Sharing Power
After funding for SETI, which stands for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, " was cut, researchers looked around for a new way to get the computing power they needed.
FORBES: Magazine Article
He conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence and helped construct the Voyager interstellar record, which carried pictures and music from Earth out into the cosmos.
FORBES: 02.18.08, 6:00 PM ET