Lesson 25 Television Day:The Flyer
第25课  电视课,飞机
Narrator:The children's favourite subject is General Knowledge.
旁白:孩子们最喜欢的学科是常识课
They watch a progarmme on television every week.
他们每个星期都看电视节目.
There is a television in their classroom.
他们的教室里有架电视机
Today our programme is about the first aeroplane with an engine.
今天的节目是讲关于第一架带有引擎的飞机.
For thousands of years men couldn't fly.It was too difficult.
千百年来人们不会飞行,因为飞行太难了.
Birds are able to fly with their wings.
鸟有翅膀就能飞,
It is very easy for them to fly.But men haven't got wings.
飞行对它们来说很容易;但是人没有翅膀.
The first aero-planes were gliders--planes without engines.
第一架飞机是滑翔机---即没有引擎的飞机,
The first plane with an engine was the Flyer.
人称"飞行器".
Two brothers,Wilbur and Orville Wright,built it.
威尔伯和奥维尔.赖特兄弟两人制造了这架飞行器
On December 17th,1903,
1903年12月17日,
Orville lay on the bottom wing of his plane and started the engine.
奥维尔卧在这架飞行器的底翼上然后发动引擎,
The Flyer was able to take off with its own power.
飞行器靠它自身的马力起飞,
It rose 10 feet and flew 120 feet.
它飞行的高度达10英尺,共飞行了220英尺.
This was a great moment in the history of flying.
这是飞行史上伟大的时刻