`a meat thermometer into last week's turkey' 咋理解。。。

Whistler

http://www.sharonlbegley.com/the-search-for-life

And this week, if Gavit's luck holds, two acorn-shape aeroshells will scream across the Martian sky and will each release a tiny probe that will punch into the soil like a meat thermometer into last week's turkey.

请教下这段最后一句的 a meat thermometer into last week's turkey 咋理解。。。一个肉温度计插到上周的火鸡里面?

多谢

[ 本帖最后由 Whistler 于 8-1-2013 10:28 编辑 ]

yearshappy

没全读原文，单从这个句子理解
烤肉温度计 去 测试烤箱任何肉， 这个插在肉中的形状，就类似作者描述的情形
用人们常见到的情形来形容， 易使一般读者理解
但不明白 last week  
也许作者上周刚烤火鸡了庆圣诞？  

Daibaw

放了一个星期的烤火鸡跟石头一样硬了