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
aberrant personality
abortive infection
affect-memory
anteclises
antefixa
axis of freedom
babble signal
balance wheels
belles-lettres
biased sample
blandiloquently
blutpunkte
bottle collections
branched secondary amine
cardos (los cardos)
central sleep apnoea
cohomology of a coproduct
common radishes
complex geophysical prospecting
daquiris
de Laval nozzle
DG (diesel generator)
diaspense
disputed
drive chain guard
Dunbaria villosa
eighth-ranked
end instrument
face ring
fish horn
fluorescence spectrum
fluorosugar
Fokidos, Nomos
foreign branch plant
frenchman r.
Gausk
gougere
half round countersunk head bolt
high speed turning tool
holodiastolic
ideological barriers
individual labour
inductance measuring meter
inside legs
isometric flowsheet
Ixora gracilis
karyostenosis
kelkal
lack of money
loading track
locally homomorphic
millionist
Mr.Big
natural isotope mixture
ordavician period
Paradombeya
Phormidium tinctorium
phylogenetic memory
police chief
polyribosome(polysome)
pomquet
posterior limb
potash-lime glass
Pseudanthistiria
rapidly switched tube
reserve oneself for
roseheart radish
Ross, Cape
rubber conveyor belt
safe productivity
sciatic vein
screening level
serrated profile
squib kicks
stage lighting units
standby network link group
stratigraphic amplitude
strontium bisulfite
suborder tarsioideas
syllabic nasal
take one's mutton with someone
test of equality of estimator
the carera back masking method
thif
Thong Hai Xieng
Tobli
tombarthite- (y)
transmitted electron image
Traube's curves
trilacunar
unentertaining
uplifters
upper arm cross hang
uterine crypts
vacuum-valve receiver
venofibrosis
vortex interference effect
water-rock
well meant
windlass traction
wire file