We were flying above the clouds.

我们在云层上面飞行。

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We were flying through dense cloud.

我们当时正在厚厚的云层中飞行。

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At near the speed of sound, we were flying ahead of our engine's roar.

由于速度几近音速，我们把引擎的轰鸣声甩在了后面。

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"We were flying over the channel and I looked down and there were thousands and thousands of ships,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

For the first two years of Twitter's life, we were flying blind.

推特诞生的头两年，我们经营的很盲目。

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her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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Soon we were flying over the heart of the park, with nothing but snow and ice below.

BBC: Kluane, Canada (Credit: Parks Canada/Fritz Mueller)

We were watching the Red Sox as we were flying home -- a nail-biter.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But there'd been some mix-up, or crooked dealing, and we were flying empty.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Skybreaker'