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。
学英语单词
2-vinyl pyridine
acetylaspartate
active earth
aethaloessa calidalis tiphalis
after chrome process
Agrolândia
airedale (terrier)
ammunitions
antiproton reaction
appariate
Augusta, G.di
B.t.u.,b.t.u.
beguiling
blackbody radiating temperature
blast furnace equipment
bosveld
cant chisel
capacity-accumulation game
capsular hemiplegia
carbon dioxide poisoning
cash flow statement
chaconne (france)
charter rate
Chireix transmitter
chuk
closed level circuit
colobus rufomitratus
corails
decangular
dirschau
dougied
electro-optical guided bomb
emarginula foveolata fujitai
EMMM
erodable
feed equilibrium
ferdinand vs
focal process
forward spacing
foundation arrangement drawing
freezing borehole
Galahads
gambier islandss
gastric carcinoma
Gleasondale
gravimeter beam
heavenware
high tension condenser
histidines
home piece
hot-fudge sauces
impose on/upon
Inda Silasē
induced abortions
internal electrolysis
inversed grafting
Katsepy
landay
lymphoglandulae gastroepiploicae dextrae
melora
Milambo
militated
months after payment
multigroups
muscular substance
nasus incurvus
natural gasoline plant
neutron source box
noun of assemblage
on someone's coattails
phrap
pimpery
planing cutter
pre-terrestrial
preposterating
probe adapter
programming fluid
prolonged abortion
quartz (controlled) oscillator
quartzolite glass
redheaders
relaying current transformer
resistive two-terminal element
Roger Fry
roy lichtensteins
s.i.b.
seabream
self-powereds
separation of waybill from shipment
Shukra
sleep with you
snow cannons
spine duct
Stellera
streptococcus dysgalactiae
tetradecene dicarboxylic acid
thunburg technique
triple h
unhackneyed
vortexinduced
Weser