A large disc-shaped rectifying antenna attached to the fuselage harvested the microwave energy, turning it into direct current to power an electric motor attached to the plane's propeller.

机身上的圆盘形整流天线能接收地面传输的微波能，将其转化为直流电为飞机推进器上的电动机供能。

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For when Shenton rides his motorbike, he says it is not gravity that pins him to the road, but the rapid upward motion of a disc-shaped planet.

比方说，他认为人骑摩托能紧贴在地面与重力并无关系，而是由于这个星球像个圆盘，在急速地上升。

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The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.

机器人选的是Roomba——一个圆盘状的自动真空清洁机，还有四个像人类的机器人——它们具备的人类特点多少程度不同。

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Upon inflation the ballonets protrude through the ring meshing to form occluded dimples the method permitting a large volume of gas in a smaller disc shaped area.

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