Since that time, various types of hovercraft have appeared and taken up regular service.

从那以后，各种各样的气垫船出现了，并开始了定期航行服务。

This Ernie did, fanning Nick along like a silent black hovercraft.

厄尼照办了，扇着尼克朝前走，没有声音的黑色气垫船。

What is a hovercraft riding on when it is in motion?

气垫船运动时依靠的是什么？

An early hovercraft stands with a fleet of submersibles and a truck that once roamed the Antarctic.

还有早期的气垫船，排潜器，和辆曾经驰骋于南极洲的卡车。

What is a hovercraft riding on when it is in motion

气垫船在运动时，骑气垫船的最佳方式是什么？

Position then to Sir Christopher Cockerell came up with the hovercraft in the 1950s'.

20世纪50年代，克里斯托弗·科克雷尔爵士发明了气垫船。

The skirts will lift the hovercraft to around a meter and a half off of the surface.

气垫把气垫船提升到离1.5米的高度。

The main purpose is to show how hovercrafts work, and how things hover around on just a cushion of air.

主要目的是展示气垫船是如何工作的，在气垫上是如何来回运动的。

Gliding seamlessly across land and water on top of a cushion of air, hovercraft are versatile machines unlike any other.

气垫船能在陆地和上无缝滑行，是与众不同的多功能交通工具。

Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

本世纪已研制出许多新奇的交通工具，其中最新奇的要数气垫船了。

Really the golden age of the hovercraft were the 80's.

气垫船真正的黄金时代是80年代。

Imagine if we could design the hovercraft wheelchair.

想象下， 如果我们可以设计气垫船轮椅。

That private hovercraft will ever be popular, I rather doubt.

私人气垫船永远不会流行，我很怀疑。

Rather more practical, and of much more immediate importance, will be ground-effect vehicles, or hovercraft.

更实用、更直接重要的是地效飞行器或气垫船。

The hovercraft travelled first over the water, then mounted the beach, climbed up the dunes, and sat down on a road.

气垫船先是在上行驶，后又登上海岸，爬上沙丘，最后停在路上。

The biggest passenger hovercraft in the world, now you can really see the size of the thing.

这是世界上最大的载客气垫船，现在你可以看到它到底有多大。

You're really got to be able to do something with the hovercraft you couldn't do with a normal vessel.

你必须要能用气垫船做些普通船做不到的事情。

The future, I don't see is dead for hovercraft.

我不认为气垫船没有未来。

People look at the hovercraft as not working as a passenger agency, but we've been operating for over 50 years.

人们认为气垫船不是家客运公司，但我们确实已经运营了50多年。

Connecting south sea and the Isle of Wight off England's south coast in less than 10 minutes, this hovercraft carrying nearly 1 million passengers each year.

这气垫船每年运送近100万名乘客，以不到10分钟的时间将南海和英格兰南部海岸的怀特岛相连。