英语短新闻 飞行汽车不再是遥不可和的梦.docVIP

小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：英语短新闻 飞行汽车不再是遥不可及的梦 CLEARLAKE, Calif. — On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake about 100 miles north of San Francisco. 加利福尼亚州克利尔湖——前不久的一个下午，硅谷一家名叫“基蒂霍克”(Kitty Hawk)的小公司的航空工程师驾驶飞行汽车，在旧金山以北约100英里外一座风景秀丽的湖泊上飞翔。 Kitty Hawk抯 flying car, if you insisted on calling it a 揷ar,?looked like something Luke Skywalker would have built out of spare parts. It was an open-seated, 220-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howled as loudly as a speedboat. 基蒂霍克的飞行汽车——如果你坚持称之为“汽车”的话——看上去就像天行者卢克用零部件组装起来的。这是一个有开放式座椅的新奇装置，220磅重，可供一人乘坐，由八个以电池为动力的螺旋桨驱动，发出像快艇一样巨大的咆哮声。 The tech industry, as we are often told, is fond of disrupting things, and lately the automakers have been a big target. Cars that use artificial intelligence to drive themselves, for example, have been in development for a few years and can be spotted on roads in a number of cities. And now, coming onto the radar screen, are flying machines that do not exactly look like your father抯 Buick with wings. 正如我们经常被告知的那样，科技行业喜欢颠覆，最近汽车制造商成了他们的大目标。比如说，经过了几年的开发，许多城市的道路上已经可以看到使用人工智能自动驾驶的汽车。现在，飞行的机器又来到雷达显示屏上，它们并不完全像是给老爸的别克轿车加上一对翅膀。 More than a dozen start-ups backed by deep-pocketed industry figures like Larry Page, a Google founder — along with big aerospace firms like Airbus, the ride-hailing company Uber and even the government of Dubai — are taking on the dream of the flying car. 在谷歌创始人之一拉里·佩奇(Larry Page)等富有的业内人士、空中客车公司(Airbus)等大型航空公司、叫车公司优步(Uber)甚至是迪拜政府等各方面支持下，十几家初创企业都在追求飞行汽车这个梦想。 The approaches by the different companies vary and the realization of their competing visions seems far in the future, but they have one thing in common: a belief that one day regular people should be able to fly their own vehicles around town. 不同公司采取的方法也各不相同，而且他们的各种愿景似乎要到遥远的未来才能实现，但是他们有一个共同点：相信总有一天，普通人应该可以开着车，在城里四处飞翔。 There are ch