仅次于飞行的事就是滑翔。
飞行的汽车可能很快就会出现在天空中。
我们希望获得有关如何尽可能便宜地飞行的建议。
蝙蝠能避开其他捕食者,找到猎物——通常是夜间飞行的昆虫。
The bats are able to avoid other predators, and locate prey—typically insects that fly around at night.
世界上有几家公司已经生产出能够在公路上驾驶和飞行的模型。
Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly.
天气状况是如何通过影响气流来提高编队飞行的效率的,这点仍有待观察。
It remains to be seen how weather conditions affect the air flows that make formation flight more efficient.
19世纪90年代,劳伦斯·哈格雷夫发明了盒子风筝来测试有关飞行的想法。
In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite to test ideas about flight.
关于鸟类飞行的起源,传统上提出了两种对立的假设:“地栖说”和“树栖说”。
Two opposing scenarios, the "arboreal" hypothesis and the "cursorial" hypothesis, have traditionally been put forward concerning the origins of bird flight.
自1914年以来,科学家们已经知道,以V字形队形飞行的鸟类消耗的能量更少。
Since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape—expend less energy.
岛上的野猪引来了大陆的金雕,这些飞行的捕食者们导致岛屿灰狐的数量大幅下降。
Wild pigs attracted golden eagles from the mainland, and those flying predators crashed the fox population.
十年前,这个岛的生态系统处于混乱状态,野猪吸引了来自大陆的金雕,而那些飞行的捕食者又使狐狸的数量锐减。
A decade ago, this island's ecosystem was in chaos. Wild pigs attracted golden eagles from the mainland, and those flying predators crashed the fox population.
欧文对飞行的兴趣起于15岁那年。
欧文在飞行学校实现了他学习飞行的梦想。
At flight school, Irving achieved his dream of learning how to fly.
猎鹰9号的首次发射可能会改变人类太空飞行的进程。
The first launch of Falcon 9 could change the course of human space flight.
显然,它们所捕食的夜间飞行的昆虫必须找到某种识路的方法。
Obviously the night-flying insects that they prey on must find their way about somehow.
E类和A 类空域的划分取决于在这两类空域飞行的飞机类型。
The reason for the division of Class E and Class A airspace stems from the type of planes operating in them.
大多数人认为第一次飞机是在1903年飞行的,但事实并非如此。
Most people believe that the first airplane flew in 1903, but this is not true.
科学家们说,这可能是大黄蜂飞行的方式,或者也许是它们发出的嗡嗡声。
This could be the way bumblebees fly or perhaps the buzzing sound they make, say the scientists.
太空中平均每立方厘米只有两个氢原子,这对低速飞行的宇宙飞船不构成威胁。
There are just two hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter on average in space, which poses no threat to spaceships traveling at low speeds.
与单独飞行的鸟类相比,以V形飞行的加拿大鹅在没有休息的情况下可以多飞17%。
Canada geese flying in a V shape can fly seventeen percent farther without having a rest than the birds flying alone.
即使外星人已经掌握了制造一枚能以光速飞行的火箭的技术,他也可能死在了一架飞船里。
Even if ET has mastered building a rocket that can travel at the speed of light, he may be lying dead inside a weakened craft .
像不能飞行的鸟类的株状的翅膀,还有人类皮肤的毛发,这些都是我们有共同的祖先的证据。
Vestiges such as the stumpy wings of flightless birds, and the hairs that prickle on human skin, are further testimony to our shared origins.
与单独飞行的鸟类相比,以V形飞行的加拿大鹅在没有休息的情况下可以多飞行百分之七十的距离。
Canada geese flying in a V shape can fly seventy percent farther without having a rest than the birds flying alone.
为了避免伤害在铁路附近飞行的数千只朱鹮,铁路沿线已经设置了防护网,以确保这些鸟儿不会飞进火车。
To avoid hurting the thousands of crested ibises that fly near one part of the railway, protective nets have been set up along the tracks to make sure the birds will not fly into a train.
面对气候变化,当树木生长的超出它们理想栖息地时,这些飞行的生态系统工程师对于重新植树能有巨大的帮助。
As trees outgrow their ideal habitats in the face of climate change, these flying ecosystem engineers could be a big help in replanting trees.
个人飞行的梦想在许多发明家的脑海中仍然鲜活生动,一些人开发循环动力飞行器,另一些人则往喷气背包上大量投入资金。
The dream of personalised flight is still vivid in the minds of many inventors, some developing cycle-powered craft, others pouring money into jetpacks.
尽管它的历史可以追溯到金字塔建造后的几百年,但它的复杂程度表明,埃及人可能很长一段时间以来一直在思考飞行的想法。
Although it dates from several hundred years after the building of the pyramids, its sophistication suggests that the Egyptians might have been developing ideas of flight for a long time.
尽管在飞机等干燥环境中,飞行的过程中很容易滋生传染病,但由于飞机上使用了空气过滤器,因此你在飞机上得病的风险实际上很低。
Although in-flight infections thrive in dry environments like airplanes, your risk of getting sick from an airplane is actually low because of the air filters used.
团队合作会随时间推移而改善:美国国家运输安全委员会发现,其民用航空数据库中,73%的事故发生在机组人员一起飞行的第一天。
Teamwork improves with time: America's National Transportation Safety Board found that 73% of the incidents in its civil-aviation database occurred on a crew's first day of flying together.
尼泊尔是一个小国,从12,000英尺高度上向东飞行的飞机的舷窗望出去,可以清楚地看到左侧窗外30英里外高耸的喜马拉雅山脉明亮的白色海市蜃楼。
Nepal is a small country, and from the windows of our plane floating eastward at 12,000 feet, one can see clearly the brilliant white mirage of the high Himalayas thirty miles off the left window.
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