Her feet carried her mechanically forward, every foot of her progress being a satisfactory portion of a flight which she gladly made.

她的双脚带着她机械地向前走，前进的每一步都是她欢喜地创造的逃跑中的令人满意的一部分。

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When asked by a reporter why he’d made such a foolhardy flight, Walters was ready with a pithy reply: “A man can’t just sit around.”

当Walters被一名记者问及为什么进行这次莽撞的飞行时，他胸有成竹，回答得十分精炼：“人不能无所事事。”

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China joined the green jet age on Friday when an Air China 747 circled Beijing on a demonstration flight powered by a plant-based biofuel made by Honeywell UOP.

上周五，一架使用植物生物燃料的国航747飞机在北京上空进行了验证飞行，此种燃油由霍尼韦尔环球油品公司(Honeywell UOP)生产。这标志着中国迈入了绿色喷气机时代。

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He had guided the flight. Both men knew they had made the flight as a team.

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Alan Shepard made only a fifteen-minute flight in the little one-man Mercury spacecraft.

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He also had made a Gemini flight.

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Despite later cancelling its flights, the Irish carrier Ryanair claimed it had made a test flight through ash over Scotland and challenged a ruling some flights should be grounded.

BBC: NI flights cancelled as ash cloud approaches

American astronaut Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight later that year, and John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.

CNN: Reports: Monkey soars from Iran into space -- and back

Luckily, the far-sighted BBC South Africa Bureau Chief had already made reservations on a flight to Johannesburg first thing the next morning.

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