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飞机
Airplane
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
飞机为我们揭开了地球的真面目。
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
如果要我选的话,我宁愿要鸟也不要飞机。
And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.
我不想从飞机上跳下去——我已经这样做了。
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
为什么他们不把整个飞机都用那个黑匣子做。
Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.
被困在飞机跑道上。你永远可以指望我们的空气。
We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.
我们经常买机票;我们乘协和式飞机旅行。
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
我不会像我认识的其他人那样从飞机上跳下来。
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
有一些格言,就像飞机一样,只有在运动时才会熬夜。
When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
当你生活和工作在不同的时区,你会花很多时间在飞机上。
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
对我来说,现代科技已经毁了爱情和电影——再也没有人能跑到登机门了。
Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
老年人的周末和飞机着陆是一样的。如果你能远离他们,他们就成功了。
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.
我是一名驾驶飞机的飞行员,我所飞行的地方恰好成为我从事间谍活动的地方。
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
我对飞机的感觉就像我对饮食的感觉一样。在我看来,它们对其他人来说都是美好的事情。
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
我坐过很多次飞机,所以我只是抿着红酒,想着一些愚蠢的想法,当我想到它的时候,我就想让它发生。
One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
有一天,有人对我说,‘你想从飞机上跳下来吗?“我觉得我再也没有什么可以失去的了,所以我说,‘为什么不呢?从那以后,我每天都在问自己这个问题。
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.
对我来说,坐汽车或飞机就像在地狱里一样。这是两个地方之间的死角。但是散步,你已经是一个有趣的地方了。你不只是在不同的地方之间。正在发生的事情。
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
女人必须为一切买单。他们确实因为类似的壮举获得了比男性更多的荣誉,但当他们撞车时,他们也会得到更多的恶名。
One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.
我的一个节省时间的习惯是把我所有的杂志和垃圾邮件都存起来乘飞机旅行。我带着一个很重的包裹走在飞机上,但是当旅程结束时,这些东西都可以被扔掉。