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the bottle, the box, and the jar are almost always granted them.

結果就是把瓶藥、盒藥、罐藥開給看病的人而完事大吉。

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Nor is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person who has such faith in the bottle of medicine.

并不只是那些無知和沒受過良好教育的人才迷信藥瓶子。

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It is recounted of Thomas Carly1e that when he heard of the illness of his friend,

他聽說朋友病了，

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Henry Taylor, he went offimmediately to visit him,

亨利·泰勒，就立刻跑去看他，

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carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs.Carlyle's.

衣袋里裝上了一瓶他妻子不舒服時吃剩下的藥。

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Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle in his pocket contained,

卡萊爾不知道藥瓶子里裝的是什么藥，

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of the nature of the illness from which his friend was suffering,

不知道他的朋友得的是什么病，

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and of what had previously been wrong with his wife,

也不知道他妻子以前得的是什么病，

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but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another,

只知道一種藥對一種病有好處，肯定對另一種病也會有好處。

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and comforted by the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend,

想到能對朋友有所幫助，他感到欣慰，

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he hastened to Henry Taylor's house.

于是急急忙忙來到了亨利·泰勒的家里。

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History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, but in all probability he did.

他的朋友是否接受了他的藥物治療，歷史沒有記載，但很可能是接受了。

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The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demands on the taker beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste,

對服藥人別無其他要求，除了暫時忍受一下令人作嘔的味道外，

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and that is what all patients demand of their doctors----to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.

病要治好，但不要太麻煩。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century,

本世紀已研制出許多新奇的交通工具，

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the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

其中最新奇的要數氣墊船了。

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In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher Cockerell,who had turned to boat-building on the Norfolk Broads,

在1953年，有一位50多歲名叫克里斯托弗·科克雷爾的原電子工程師，改行在諾?？丝さ暮吹貐^從事造船業，

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suggested an idea on which he had been working for many years to the British Government and industrial circles.

他向英國政府和工業界提出了他研究多年的一項計劃。

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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.

用一個氣墊來支撐船體，低壓空或軟墊，軟墊周圍用高壓空氣環繞。

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Ever since, people have had difficulty in deciding whether the craft should be ranged among ships,

自那以后，人們很難決定是否應該將這種運載工具列為輪船、

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planes, or land vehicles----for it is something in between a boat and an aircraft.

飛機，或是陸上交通工具，因為它是介于船和飛機之間。

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As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.

作為一個船舶技帥，科克雷爾在尋找解決波浪阻力的方法，因為波浪阻力浪費掉了船在水面行駛的大量動力，從而限制了船的速度。

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His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air,

他的解決辦法是把船體提離水面，讓船在一個氣墊上行駛，

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no more than one or twofeet thick.

氣墊只有一兩英尺厚。

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This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft.

船底裝上大量環狀噴氣嘴以實現這一目的。

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It 'flies', therefore, but it cannot fly higher---

這樣，船就能飛了，但飛不高。

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its action depends on the surface, water or ground, over which it rides.

它的飛行取決于它所懸浮的水面或地面。

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The first tests on the Solent in 1959 caused a sensation.

在1959年，在蘇倫特海峽進行的首次試航引起了轟動。

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The hovercraft travelled first over the water, then mounted the beach,

氣墊船先是在水面上行駛，后又登上海岸，

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climbed up the dunes, and sat down on a road.

爬上沙丘，最后停在路上。