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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a cherry
adish
alkylbenzensulfonate
all of a sort
alvertons
ammonia rash
anthracosaurids
Anulus femoralis
anxious to
Arubian
bar pattern
bimetallic balance
break-even curve
Büyükzap Suyu(Zāb al Kabīr, Nahr az)
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choline esterase
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cyclo cross
direct opthalmoscope
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dudess
electric transverse weaving machine
enzyme system
evacuators
extrasensitive
fictious graticule
flaugin'
flavo(u)r factor
floating interpretive language (flint)
fret for
gallore
Gaussian channel
genus Durio
genus Trichophaga
GGGG
give sb a call
Google Earth
ground wind test
hexyl acetate
hispano-suiza
histiocytoma
hypomyelinogenesis
inner tube
intrinsically safe system
irradiation equipment
Isratine
j-stars
Kellettville
knock-in
laur
limnologists
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Manamelkudi
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moving contact assembly
msc.s
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nonflight
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paleontography
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parentage
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patent digest
polyateral
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self-destroying device
servounit
sheeshas
slitter line
splinter bone
standby component
sternward
sublingua
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three-layers
thrust reversing actuator
tiddleywinks
timber felling
truce negotiation
Udanin
value-for-money
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