This is rather like aeronautics experts insisting that bumble bees cannot fly, while forgetting it is their job to find out just exactly how they manage to fly so well.

这就像航空学专家坚称大黄蜂飞不起来一样，他们忘记了自己的任务是研究大黄蜂到底是如何飞得那么好的。

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First time they had ever been on a plane was actually to fly to the competition that they ended up doing so well on.

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