(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
At 74,700 feet (22,800 metres), and at 2.44 Mach speed, it began to roll uncontrollably, then spin upside down. Completely disoriented, battered by plus and minus g-loads, he remembered his helmet cracking the inner canopy, and not a lot else. At last the plane got upright and, at 25,000 feet, he popped it out of the spin. He had dropped 50,000 feet in 70 seconds. Back in radio contact, he gasped out: Christ! Boy, I'm not doing that any more. It was odd enough that he was in the air anyway. As a boy, running the hills or sitting with his grandfather learning to fish, he never got near a plane, except to see one in the sky. He had no ambitions that way and, with only high school behind him, not enough education.
在7.47万英尺(2.28万米)处,以2.44马赫的速度,它开始不受控制地滚动,然后倒转
。他完全迷失了方向,受到正负重力的重创,他记得他的头盔打碎了内部的顶棚,而不是其他很多东西 。最后飞机直立起来,在2.5万英尺的高度,他把它从旋转中弹出 。他在70秒内掉了5万英尺 。他对着无线电通讯说,他气喘吁吁地说:天哪!天哪,我再也不会那样做了 。不管怎样,他在空中已经够奇怪的了 。当他还是个孩子的时候,跑山或者和爷爷坐在一起学钓鱼,他除了在空中看到一架飞机外,从未接近过飞机 。他没有那种雄心壮志,只有高中,没有足够的教育 。He enlisted in the air force in 1941 as a mechanic, earthbound and easy, because he had already tinkered for years with engines, water-pumps and his father's cable tools for drilling for natural gas. He took up flight training mostly because pilots had beautiful girls on their arms, and hands that weren't dirty. But he became the most decorated pilot in America. In the same strange sort of reversal, he started out with no interest in space and ended up training astronauts. In the 1950s, when space was mentioned, he would dismiss it as a place where he wouldn't be flying, but sitting in a thing controlled by someone else. No doubt the views were pretty, but he couldn't have cared less. And anyway, he had no degree. His ideas changed as the government began to press the space programme and America, in his view, fell far behind the Soviets in developing space technology.
1941年,他作为一名机械师加入空军,脚踏实地,轻松自如,因为他多年来一直在修理发动机,水泵和他父亲用来钻探天然气的电缆工具
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重点讲解
1.upside down 翻滚
When his wife died, his entire world was turned upside down.
他妻子死后,他的整个生活变得一塌糊涂 。
2.At last the plane got upright and, at 25,000 feet, he popped it out of the spin.
pop out 冒出去
He looked as if his eyes were going to pop out.
他眼珠好像要跳出来似的 。
3.He took up flight training mostly because pilots had beautiful girls on their arms.
take up 开始从事
He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport.
他并不特别想从事竞技体育运动 。