1. Ever since, people have had difficulty in deciding whether the craft should be ranged among ships, planes, or land vehicles----for it is something in between a boat and an aircraft. 自那以后,人们很难决定是否应该将这种运载工具列为轮船、飞机,或是陆上交通工具,因为它是介于船和飞机之间。
2. Weaving is a craft. 编织是一种手艺。
3. His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air, no more than one or two feet thick. This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft. 他的解决办法是把船体提离水面,让船在一个气垫上行驶,气垫只有一两英尺厚。船底装上大量环状喷气嘴以实现这一目的。
4. Although the major joked about how simple it was to fly the F-16, the truth is that a pilot must be an expert to control the craft. 尽管少校开玩笑说,驾驶F-16是件多么容易的事,然而事实是,驾驶这架飞机的飞行员必须是专家才行。
5. It was the idea of supporting a craft on a ´pad´, or cushion, of low-pressure air, ringed with a curtain of higher pressure air. 他的设想是:用一个低压空气或软垫来支撑船体,软垫周围用高压空气环绕。