But alas! We do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes.

是，唉！我们不喜欢燕八哥和杜鹃，它们跑到别个鸟禽所筑造的巢中去下蛋，那叽叽喳喳的不协和乐音并不能使行路经过的人听了快乐。

You can only see it in museums now, not the skies but when it was airborne the Concorde could cruise at twice the speed of sound.

你现在只能在博物馆里看到它，不是在空中，而是在空中行时，协和式以以两倍于音速的速度行。

These ships once they're tested and approved could be the Concord of the 21st century. Zipping people and packages around the globe ultra fast.

这些船一旦经过测试和批准，就会成为 21 世纪的协和，以将人和包裹以超快的速度运送到全球各地。

Commercial supersonic air travel was first realized in the 1970s when Concord took flight.

20世纪70年代，协和式超音速开启首次商业行。

Nor has Airbus, its European arch-rival (which was involved in the Concorde project).

它的欧洲头号竞争对手空中车公司（曾参与协和式目）也没有任何动作。

Around 1,400 nurses, doctors and carers attended a ceremony in Paris' Place de la Concorde.

约有1400名护士、医生和护工参加了在巴黎协和广场举行的典礼。

Limited roots and heavy fuel consumption meant that operating the Concorde was not good business.

有限的行路线和大量的燃料消耗意味着协和式的运营并不划算。

A more famous example of the fallacy is the Concorde - the supersonic passenger plane.

一个更著名的谬误例子是协和式超音速。

Current commercial aircraft fly about 80% of the speed of sound or 85% of the speed of sound, while supersonic airplanes like the Concorde when almost two times as speed of sound.

目前商用的行速度约为音速的 80% 或 85%，而协和式等超音速的行速度几乎是音速的两倍。

Scaled up to human size, the bee would outrun a Concorde Jet – except it couldn't even take off because it would be too heavy for its wings.

如果把蜜蜂放大到人类大小，它们会得比协和还快，惜它们连起都不行，因为它们的体型对翅膀来说太重了。

And who would have guessed that the programming of the black box flight recorder of Supersonic Concord would have been done by a bunch of women working in their own homes.

有谁能想到协和超音速上，进行行纪录的黑匣子程序，是出自一群在家中兼职的女性呢？

One of the biggest savage operations in maritime history to raise, to raise the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship begins in a few hours time and later.

几个小时后将开始海事史最大规模的打捞行动，准备打捞起歌诗达协和号。

The Paris Paralympic Games began in earnest on Wednesday evening with an opening ceremony at Place de la Concorde, where around 270 members of the Chinese delegation were present.

巴黎残奥会于周三晚在协和广场举行开幕式、 中国代表团约 270 名成员出席了开幕式。

New construction for the event includes a temporary area near the Eiffel Tower for beach volleyball and another at the Place de la Concorde for urban sports.

为此次赛事新建的设施包括在埃菲尔铁塔附近的一个临时区域用于沙滩排球，以及在协和广场的另一个区域用于城市运动。

And the distance between the Fountain of Apollo and the Versailles Palace is the same as the distance from Place de la Concorde to the Louvre.

阿波罗喷泉到凡尔赛宫的距离与协和广场到卢浮宫的距离也是一样的。

Boom's overture aircraft will also cut transatlantic flying time by 50 percent, but will be quieter than the Concorde and more sustainable the firm says.

该公司表示，Boom的Overture也将减少百分之五十的跨大西洋行时间，但将比协和式更安静，更持续。

Or if you want to settle for traveling in a plane just hope that the Concorde comes back and do it in about 32 hours.

或者说你想坐旅行，只希望“协和”能顺利返航，那么你以用32小时环游世界。

From its first light in 1969 until its last in 2003, the Concorde supersonic plane shovel passengers at speeds far faster than traditional airlines.

从1969年首到2003年的最后一次试期间，协和式超音速一直在以远远快于传统航空公司的速度运送着乘。

That might not seem out of place in your average bar, but onboard the last flight of the Concorde the altercation stood out.

这种情形在普通的酒吧里能很常见，但这一争执是发生在协和的最后一班上。

Mobutu Sese Seko, a former strongman, used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris.

蒙博托·塞塞·塞科曾经是位强人。他曾用国家资金，坐着协和号包，到巴黎购物。