The kite has a span of 1.5 metres.
风筝宽1.5米。
Willy asks if I've ever flown a kite before.
威利问我以前是否放过风筝。
他想在那里放风筝。
When it's windy, I fly a kite.
当天刮风的时候，我放风筝。
The kite started to go higher.
风筝开始飞得更高了。
我想要去放风筝。
The kite has been linked to great names and events.
这个风筝与伟大的人物和事件有关。
In the past, people fastened a bamboo-made whistle onto a kite.
以前，人们把竹制的哨子系在风筝上。
"The possibility certainly existed that it was a kite," he says.
他说：“那确实有可能是风筝。”
Marco Polo may have brought the kite back from his visit to China.
马可·波罗可能通过中国之旅把风筝带了回来。
You helped the kite go up in the right direction using the string.
你用这根线帮助风筝飞向正确的方向。
I've never gone kite-boarding, but I'm prepared to give it a whirl!
我从没玩过风筝冲浪，但我准备尝试一下！
As with other Maori artistic traditions, kite-making involved certain rituals.
和毛利人的其他艺术传统一样，风筝制作也包括一些特定的仪式。
The three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite.
三个最著名的风筝是北京风筝，天津风筝和潍坊风筝。
In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite to test ideas about flight.
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。
I'm happy to say there seems to be a revival and growing interest in kite-making.
我乐意说风筝制作似乎开始复兴了，人们又对此感兴趣了。
John ran off so suddenly that the kite flew out of her hand and it fell flat as before.
约翰跑得太突然了，风筝从她手中飞了出去，像之前一样直直地摔了下来。
With such grand history, kite flying in short remains an entertaining and popular sport.
简而言之，有了这样辉煌的历史，放风筝仍然是一项适合大众娱乐且受欢迎的运动。
For example, the bird-shaped kite with long wings is a special kind of the Beijing kite.
比如，有着长长翅膀的鸟形风筝就是北京风筝的一种特殊类型。
He asked his father, "I thought that after cutting the string, the kite would fly higher."
他问他的父亲：“我以为剪断线后，风筝会飞得更高。”
After a while, the son said, "Father, it seems that the string is stopping the kite from flying higher."
过了一会儿，儿子说：“爸爸，好像是线阻止了风筝飞得更高。”
For this the priests used long grasses, and these—when the kite was in the air—would stream along behind it.
为此，牧师使用了长长的茅草，当风筝在空中飞时，这些草就会在风筝后面飘动。
She wondered if perhaps the bird was actually a giant kite, and the men were using it to lift a heavy object.
她想知道，那只鸟是否真的是一只巨大的风筝，而那些人是否正用它来举很重的东西。
The focus of this lecture is kite making; how the kites were made, their appearance and the purposes they served.
这节课的重点是制作风筝；风筝是如何制作的，它们的外观和用途。
The father explained, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the sky."
父亲解释说：“线不是阻止风筝飞得更高，而是帮助它在空中停留。”
Franklin conducted his dangerous kite experiment in a thunderstorm, founding the science of atmospheric electricity.
富兰克林在雷雨中进行了危险的风筝实验，从而奠定了大气电学的基础。
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it in a storm to find out that lightning was a form of electricity.
1752年，本杰明·富兰克林将一把钥匙系在风筝上，在暴风雨中放飞，他发现了闪电是电的一种形式。
I don't become a serious climber until the fifth grade, when I went up to rescue a kite that was stuck in the branches of a tree.
直到五年级我才成为一个真正的攀登者，那时我去救了一只被卡在树枝上的风筝。
A kite connects you to the past.
一只风筝可以把你和过去连接在一起。
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