考研阅读计划4——1987 Text 1
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Hi,我是新海,一个正在备战的考研人。
最近需要进行大量的考研专项阅读,于是萌生了一个翻译计划,准备翻译1986——2018年所有阅读,通过大量的阅读训练来熟悉考研单词,短语以及语法,更深刻理解考研阅读。
下面是我的第4篇,所有中文释义,均是由本人整理翻译,当然也有不够完善的地方,欢迎大家评论补充。
For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flight. In 400 A.D. Chinese children played with a fan-like toy that spun upwards and fell back to earth as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci conceive the first mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix,” which could carry man straight up, but was only a design and was never tested.
几个世纪以来,人们一直梦想着实现垂直飞行。公元400年,中国孩子玩了一个扇形玩具,向上旋转,随着旋转停止而倒地。达芬奇构思了第一种机械装置,叫做“螺旋”,它可以把人直接抬起来,但只是一种设计,从来没有经过测试。
- vertical flight垂直飞行
- fan-like扇状
- spun使…旋转( spin的过去式和过去分词 ); 纺; 杜撰; 急转身
- upwards向上地,上升地; 在上面,向上头
- fell back后退,违约
- ceased停止,终止,结束( cease的过去式 )
- Leonardo da Vinci芬奇(1452-1519,意大利文艺复兴时期伟大画家,雕刻家,建筑学家)
- conceive怀孕; 构思; 想像,设想; 持有; 设想; 考虑
- Helix希利克斯; 螺旋结构
- straight up笔直向上
The ancient-dream was finally realized in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft of steel tubing with a rotating fan on top. It rose awkwardly and vertically into the air from a standing start, hovered a few feet above the ground, went sideways and backwards, and then settled back to earth. The vehicle was called a helicopter.
这个古老的梦想在1940年终于实现了,当时一位俄罗斯工程师驾驶了一艘外形奇特的、顶部装有旋转风扇的钢管船。它笨拙地竖直地从一开始就升到空中,在地面几英尺高空盘旋,左右摇摆,然后落回地面。这辆车被称为直升机。
- piloted先导控制的,带先导阀的,有人驾驶的
- steel tubing钢管
- on top在上面; 处于优势
- awkwardly笨拙地; 尴尬地; 困难地; 难看地
- standing start站立式起跑,立定出发
- hovered鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 ); 靠近; 徘徊; 犹豫
- a few少许, 少数; 一点点; 些许
- sideways斜着,斜向一边; 以侧面对着; 斜向一边的
- and then进而; 于是,然后
Imaginations were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own personal helicopters. People anticipate that vertical flight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today. Such fantastic expectations were not fulfilled.
想象被激发了。人们梦想着用自己的私人直升机去上班。人们预计,垂直飞行运输机将载运数百万乘客,就像今天的客机一样。这种奇妙的期望没有实现。
- Imaginations想像力( imagination的名词复数 ); 空想; 想像出来的东西
- dreamed做梦,向往( dream的过去式和过去分词 ); 想到,料到; 考虑到,想到,料到; 虚度,度过,迷迷糊糊地度过(与 away,out 连用)
- helicopters直升机( helicopter的名词复数 )
- anticipate预见; 预料; 预感; 先于…行动; 预测; 过早地提出; 过早地考虑一件事; 预言
- vertical flight垂直飞行
- transports运送,流放( transport的名词复数 ); 使万分激动; 运送,流放( transport的第三人称单数 )
- millions of成千上万的…,无数的…
- airliners客机,班机( airliner的名词复数 )
- fulfilled满足的,个人志向得以实现的; 应验; 满足( fulfil的过去式和过去分
The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine. It excels in military missions, carrying troops, guns and strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in police work, construction and logging companies employ them in various advantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use them as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies.
直升机现已成为一种非常有用的机器。它擅长军事任务,运载军队、枪支和战略武器,而其他飞机无法前往。公司把它们用作空中办公室,许多大都市地区把它们用于警察工作,建筑和伐木公司以各种有利方式使用它们,工程师用它们进行选址和勘测,石油公司用它们作为进行海上和远程工作的最佳方式。可供船员和供应品使用。
- extremely useful非常有用
- excels优于,擅长( excel的第三人称单数 ); 胜过平时
- military missions军命
- airborne空运的,飞机载的; 航空的; 空气所带的; 空气传播的
- metropolitan areas都市圈
- advantageous有利的; 优越
- site selection选址; 厂址选择; 场址选择; 位置选择
- surveying测量; 调查( survey的现在分词 ); 检查; 眺望
- oil companies石油公司
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crews一群人( crew的名词复数 ); 全体船员; 划船队员; 一队工作人员
Any urgent mission to a hard-to-get-to place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of used: deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work, and aid in the search for missing or wanted persons.
任何紧急任务,难以到达的地方是一个直升机的可能任务。还有许多其他的用途:运送人员穿越城镇,往返机场,协助救援工作,以及协助搜寻失踪或通缉人员。 - urgent急迫的; 催促的; 强求的; 极力主张的
- helicopter直升机,直升飞机; 用直升飞机载送; 乘直升飞机
- multitude大量,许多; 大众,人群
- deliver交付; 发表; 递送; 使分娩; 传送; 投递
- across town在城市的另一端
- fly to把…空运到; 乘…飞往
- airports航空站,机场,航空港( airport的名词复数 )
- assist in在…上给予协助
- rescue work救济事业
- search for搜索,搜寻; 访求; 追索
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作者:新海
11月15日晨