Lesson 25 Television Day:The Flyer
第25課 電視課,飛機
Narrator:The children's favourite subject is General Knowledge.
旁白:孩子們最喜歡的學科是常識課
They watch a progarmme on television every week.
他們每個星期都看電視節(jié)目.
There is a television in their classroom.
他們的教室里有架電視機
Today our programme is about the first aeroplane with an engine.
今天的節(jié)目是講關于第一架帶有引擎的飛機.
For thousands of years men couldn't fly.It was too difficult.
千百年來人們不會飛行,因為飛行太難了.
Birds are able to fly with their wings.
鳥有翅膀就能飛,
It is very easy for them to fly.But men haven't got wings.
飛行對它們來說很容易;但是人沒有翅膀.
The first aero-planes were gliders--planes without engines.
第一架飛機是滑翔機---即沒有引擎的飛機,
The first plane with an engine was the Flyer.
人稱"飛行器".
Two brothers,Wilbur and Orville Wright,built it.
威爾伯和奧維爾.賴特兄弟兩人制造了這架飛行器
On December 17th,1903,
1903年12月17日,
Orville lay on the bottom wing of his plane and started the engine.
奧維爾臥在這架飛行器的底翼上然后發(fā)動引擎,
The Flyer was able to take off with its own power.
飛行器靠它自身的馬力起飛,
It rose 10 feet and flew 120 feet.
它飛行的高度達10英尺,共飛行了220英尺.
This was a great moment in the history of flying.
這是飛行史上偉大的時刻