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- They were inspired by big progress. But look at the progress that's going on after that.
- 他们被巨大的进步所鼓舞。但看看那之后的进步。
- There were a couple of examples here. The military fighters had a -- highest-performance military airplane was the SR71.
- 这里有两个例子。军事战斗机有一架最高性能的空军飞机是SR71。
- It went a whole life cycle, got too rusty to fly, and was taken out of service.
- 它走过了整个生命周期,直到锈迹斑斑才停滞飞行,退出服役。
- The Concorde doubled the speed for airline travel. It went a whole life cycle without competition, took out of service.
- 协和式飞机使空军旅行速度翻倍。它飞过了整个生命周期,没有遇到任何竞争;然后停飞。
- And we're stuck back here with the same kind of capability for military fighters and commercial airline travel that we had back in the late '50s.
- 而我们就此卡住,拥有这样的军事战斗机和商业航空旅行,我们回到了50年代末期。
- But something is out there to inspire our kids now. And I'm talking about if you've got a baby now, or if you've got a 10-year-old now.
- 但现在出现了一些事情去鼓舞我们的孩子。我是说如果你现在有一个婴儿,或你有一个10岁的孩子。
- What's out there is there's something really interesting going to happen here.
- 外面正在发生一些非常有趣的事情。
- Relatively soon, you'll be able to buy a ticket and fly higher and faster than the highest-performance military operational airplane.
- 不久,你就能买张票,然后飞地比最高性能的军事作战飞机更高、更快。
- It's never happened before. The fact that they have stuck here with this kind of performance has been,
- 这在之前从未发生过。事实是它们拥有着这种性能的飞行器却止步不前,
- well, you know, you win the war in 12 minutes; why do you need something better?
- 那么,你知道,你在12分钟之内赢得了这场战争,为什么你需要更好的东西?
- But I think when you guys start buying tickets and flying sub-orbital flights to space, very soon --
- 但我认为当你们开始卖票,开始亚轨道飞行,通往太空,很快--
- wait a minute, what's happening here, we'll have military fighters with sub-orbital capability, and I think very soon this.
- 稍等,这里发生了什么,我们将拥有军事战斗机,这些战斗机拥有沿亚轨道飞行的能力,我认为这很快就会发生。
- But the interesting thing about it is the commercial guys are going to go first.
- 但有趣的是,商业飞行器现具有这种能力。
- OK, I look forward to a new "capitalist's space race," let's call it.
- 好,我期待一场新的资本主义太空竞赛,让我们呼唤它。
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在这篇热情洋溢的演讲中,传奇的宇宙飞船设计者伯特·鲁坦鞭笞美国停滞政府资助的空间探索项目,并呼吁企业家重拾这个美国国家宇航局中断的项目。
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单词inspire 联想记忆: in进+spire呼吸→吸气进去,引申为鼓励
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单词military 联想记忆: mili米粒,吃米粒长大的人-军人
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单词performance 联想记忆: perform表演+ance→表现;表演
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单词inspired 联想记忆: in向内,进入+spired有呼吸的→有生命的,有灵感的
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