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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'sup
a za
African swine fever
airport movement system
angular section
Anshen Buxin Wan
asymptotic polarization
au gogo
bacala
bachillerato
bandgap grading
Benedict of Nursia, Saint
bermel
biometabolites
black-throated divers
cabrerite
canal of Steno
capital-intensive project
cast iron stave
cement grout
comprehensible
conspire with sb.
COPEF
coverlids
creation vs. recreation
cymars
dentition
dicranum nipponense
discretionally
discriminate sampling
drosophila (sophophora) lini
elements of ship formation pattern
endophloeodal lichen
energetic encounter
Erigena, Johannes Scotus
Ethanehydroxydiphosphonate
eurythmicss
fat deficiency
Fluorofen
fluspirilene
follower force effct
genus Montia
Giant's Causeway
golden ragworts
gorgonaceas
hiaticulas
high-jump
Horadiz
How's life?
idlehed
Igana
illegitimate last vayage
incer
incidental education
inspection of mould lofting
iris ring
jet head
kuping parkia javanica mev.
lateral decubitus film
lemmocytes
locking plate screw
longitudinally split nut
mapping truck
mesoseutum
misdivision haploid (kimber & riley 1963)
multiple-hearth roaster
nonstructure
Nudie suits
occipit
one-pipe series-loop heating system
operatics
operational communication system
ophionin
pancake engine
phenoxy caffeine
pittendrigh
poppet-type extraction valve
preimagining
primary pinocytosis vacuole
radiation flux divergence meter
rangeley lakes
reavow
reclining chairs
relative interference effect
repeated permutation
reserve siding
revolutionary armed forces of colombias
rotary separator length
sacrococcygeus
scout carrier
slit hemorrhage
small ship attack sonar
soft drawn wire
solid mandrel
synestrol
tether stall
Topogon lens
treatablilty
us its
voluntary imitation
weathergirls
yab-yum