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
accel pedal
addressgraph machine
aera
antistickoff voltage
atteche
average information content per character
ballast flow control valve
Bochdalek's glands
brimin-gham wire gauge
button sewer
caddee
capsulae
chemiexcitations
circular section segment
cobaltine
cobaltous phosphate
contactsubstance
convulsion
cosse
cost fraction
crave for
curium(iii) oxide
dendritic crystallization
diameter of chuck
dieselization
diheptyl
dilator iridis
discount bank
double-checks
dynamic coupling
empirical mass formula
endocervicosis
Florida, State of
framing mask
fruticosuss
Geranium franchetii
give the guy to...
guapote
halabut
half brass
Hampden
hassons
Hauhui
Hesychast controversy
high-voltage pulser
Ibrahim, Būr
idiopathic tetanus
inclosure wall
infrared light emitting diode
intramicellar
ishiadic foramen
junction-gate field-effect transistor
jyngine
kurultai
leaded lights
leodis
light field camera
macroglobulinemic nephropathy
merit review summary
midarms
neutron cooling coefficient
non-individual body
Notsuharu
nuclear art
otacoustic
Otatara
Oxazolazepam
paint sth. out
pantel
peak-pulse power
PECAM
porewater
port station
post-colonialism
poz friendly
premix molding
primary tympanic cavity
pump shaft
race-walkings
resydiuation
river course straightening
sacrilegists
Selassi
semi-autobiographical
Shraft
spartanness
starting location
stress and strain
subprocess
superstitious belief
Syringa yunnanensis
talik
thrust command output
unclubbable
undercarrier
unmail
upsamplers
walk out on
want of care
Waverveen
weke
whaling factory ship