时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

“Steering wheel, normal ; gas pedal, normal ; brake pedal, normal !”


 


It's when you put the wings down and prepare for takeoff that things get really interesting.


 


“There it is. Thirty seconds we are now on airplane.”


 


This is the Transition. It's currently under development by Massachusetts based Terrafugia Corporated. The MIT grads who run the company are betting it could be the future of flight.


 


“The vehicle like this has the potential to get more people involved in aviation.”


 


“It would be weird 1 to see it on the streets. You are going to the airport, and it’s next to you, and then it just takes off.”


 


 She’s right. It would take time getting used to, but the future maybe here sooner than you think. Earlier this month the so called roadable aircraft completed seven successful test flights in Plattsburgh, New York. Just whatever you do, don't call it a flying car.


 


“This is an air plane first and foremost.”


 


Wings up, it can travel on any road and it's narrow enough to park in your garage. You can even fill it up at your local service station. It runs on premium 2 unleaded. In the air, the 20-gallon tank can sustain flights of up to 500 miles. And with the required Sport Pilot license 3, only 20 hours of instruction time away. Company officials say not only does Transition make flying easier for pilots, it also makes it easier for more people to become pilots.


 


“I mean this is a new freedom that we are selling.”

 



1 weird
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
2 premium
n.加付款;赠品;adj.高级的;售价高的
  • You have to pay a premium for express delivery.寄快递你得付额外费用。
  • Fresh water was at a premium after the reservoir was contaminated.在水库被污染之后,清水便因稀而贵了。
3 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
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.et
adachi
alternative dispute resolution techniques
anti-halo
are-through
argumentum ad populum
arithmetic error
B.M
bacteria families
be cajoled from
bescot
capacity analysis
change ... condition
charity shops
citellus beecheyi
deaf aid
delayed release preparation
domenick
dual market price
eijsden (eisden)
electroglow
externally applied forces
filtrate pipe
flowerdews
gauchos
gegging
geological research vessel
Geraint
getting the lead out
glass-filled
gross income for distribution
guard-boat
herpetiform morphea
high angle smooth bottom steel bench plane
high voltage discharge electrode
hypoperistaltic
hypotheses
inner conductor
innies
instable allele
intermicrovillar
isoplethic curve
Kohat Division
leg-curl
Luschka
mantile
many reserve system
maoister
Messaging system.
might-have-beens
millio
modified constant-voltage charge
moving-coil-type instrument
Mālestān
non-repeated sampling
nunting
Osmedysphoria
p i n diode
P. U. C.
penicillin G potassium
plant-wide
Pollution of Ship's Noise
preacher
psalmistries
ptocasius strupifer
Qumran
real-time analogue computer
regulus regulus japonensis
roughcaster
sandlotters
Saxifraga brunneopunctata
sciamachies
screw together fitting
self-reflections
silico-
Simple Network Management Protocol
skeet shooting
sling psychrometers
solid partition
spring generation of leaf beetle
staphylococcal enterotoxin
stomatal index
storages
streetsia challengeri
Syntosil
T-shirt-able
Tan Tru
telehor
Teucrium japonicum
the land
thickwitted
think fit to do sth
to brain
total acceleration time
tumblast
tuner drum
Ushkan'i, Gory
vaccinable
Valery
Vladimir Ilyich
waistless
wrinkle city