新東方新概念英語四精講精練

新概念英語第四冊句子學習：氣墊船

523. Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century,

本世紀已研制出許多新奇的交通工具，

524. the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

其中最新奇的要數(shù)氣墊船了。

525. In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher Cockerell,

1953年，有一位50多歲名叫克里斯托弗.科克雷的原電子工程師，

526. who had turned to boat-building on the Norfolk Broads,

改行在諾?？丝さ暮吹貐^(qū)從事造船業(yè)，

527. suggested an idea on which he had been working for many years to the British Government and industrial circles.

他向英國政府和工業(yè)界提出了他研究多年的一項計劃。

528. It was the idea of supporting a craft on a 'pad', or cushion, of low-pressure air, ringed with a curtain of higher pressure air.

他的設想是：用一個低壓空氣或軟墊來支撐船體，軟墊周圍用高壓空氣環(huán)繞。

529. Ever since, people have had difficulty in deciding whether the craft should be ranged among ships, planes, or land vehicles -- for it is something in between a boat and an aircraft.

自那以后，人們很難決定是否應該將這種運載工具列為輪船、飛機，或是陸上交通工具，因為它是介于船和飛機之間。

530. As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.

作為一個船舶技師，科克雷爾在尋找解決波浪阻力的方法，因為波浪阻力浪費掉了船在水面行駛的大量動力，從而限制了船的速度。