日本隐形战斗机心神首飞成功-英语课

时间：2018-11-29 作者：英语课 分类：英语新闻

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Japan’s domestically built X-2 stealth fighter took off from Nagoya on Friday in a maiden 1 flight that highlights the accelerating arms race in East Asia.

周五，日本国产隐形战斗机X-2从名古屋起飞，完成了“处女航”。这次试飞凸显出东亚军备竞赛在不断加速。
The X-2 “Shinshin” — with the characteristically angular look of aircraft designed to evade 2 radar 3 detection — departed early on Friday morning and landed safely at Gifu air base about 25 minutes later.
X-2“心神”于周五早晨起飞，大约25分钟后安全降落在岐阜空军基地。X-2有着独特的棱角分明的外观，这种设计是为了躲避雷达探测。
Built by Mitsubishi, which manufactured the “Zero” fighter during the second world war, the flight highlights the growing capability 4 of a Japanese aerospace 5 industry that for decades has relied on the US.
这架飞机由二战时制造零式战斗机(Zero)的三菱(Mitsubishi)建造，凸显了日本航空工业能力的不断提高。几十年来，日本航空工业都依赖于美国。
But with billions of dollars in development costs needed to turn the X-2 into a fighting aircraft, the flight also shows the painful choices ahead for Japan as it tries to keep up with China’s growing military might.
但要将这架X-2改造成一架作战飞机需要数十亿美元研发费用，这也反映出，日本要想跟上中国日益增长的军事实力，将面临痛苦的选择。
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has raised Japan’s defence budget every year of his premiership but Japan’s stagnant 6 economy means it is falling ever further behind China.
日本首相安倍晋三(Shinzo Abe)上任后逐年提高了日本的防卫预算，但日本停滞的经济意味着它正被中国甩得越来越远。
Development of the X-2 reflects Japan’s dismay as it watches two powerful neighbours, Russia and China, develop stealth fighters while its US ally refuses to sell an equivalent aircraft.
X-2的研发反映出了日本的失望情绪。它眼看着两个强大的邻国——俄罗斯和中国——都在发展隐形战斗机，而盟友美国却拒绝向它出售同级别的飞机。
Sukhoi of Russia has built a stealth fighter called the T-50 while China is developing the Chengdu J-20. Both are expected to enter service in coming years, raising the prospect 7 that Japan’s defences — over the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu islands, for example — will be outclassed.
俄罗斯的苏霍伊(Sukhoi)已经造出了T-50隐形战斗机，而中国的成都飞机工业集团正在研制歼-20战斗机(J-20)。二者都有望在几年后服役，这可能会让日本的防卫——比如对有争议的尖阁诸岛（Senkaku Islands，中国称钓鱼岛及其附属岛屿）的防卫——处于极大的劣势。
The US, however, has refused to sell Japan its own stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, leaving Tokyo to rely on the less stealthy and less powerful F-35.
但美国却拒绝向日本出售其F-22“猛禽”隐形战斗机(F-22 Raptor)，东京方面不得不仰仗隐形和战斗能力不那么强的F-35战斗机。
That has prompted Japan to start its own stealth fighter programme.
这一局面促使日本启动了自己的隐形战斗机研发计划。