One hundred years ago, the seagulls, three guys from the Coast Guard's Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Lifesaving Station and a couple of locals witnessed Wilbur and Orville Wright fly a powered machine through the air for the first time.
一百年前的今天：一些海鸥；北卡罗来纳州杀魔山海岸警卫队的三个队员；救生站以及一些本地人，见证了威尔帕·莱特(Wilbur Wright)和奥维尔·莱特(Orville Wright)兄弟的第一次机动飞机飞行。
The first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine were made here by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903. A 60-foot granite monument dedicated in 1932, is perched atop 90-foot tall Kill Devil Hill commemorating the achievement of these two visionaries from Dayton, Ohio.
1903年12月17日，莱特兄弟第一次用比空气重的飞行器进行了有动力的持续飞行。1932年，90英尺高的杀魔山顶立起了一座60英尺高的花岗岩纪念碑，用以纪念这两个来自俄亥俄州代顿市的梦想家。
Wilbur and Orville Wright were two brothers from the heartland of America with a vision as sweeping as the sky and a practicality[务实] as down-to-earth[实际的] as the Wright Cycle Co., the bicycle business they founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1892. But while there were countless bicycle shops in turn-of-the-century[世纪之交] America, in only one were wings[翼] being built as well as wheels. When the Wright brothers finally realized their vision of powered human flight in 1903, they made the world a forever smaller place...
莱特兄弟来自于美国中部。他们有着天空般广阔的眼界，也有着十分务实的作风。1892年，他们在俄亥俄州的代顿开创了自己的自行车企业：莱特自行车公司。虽然在当时世纪之交的美国，有着数不清的自行车公司，但只有一个在造轮子的同时造出了翅膀。当莱特兄弟在1903年最终着眼于动力载人飞行器，他们成功地使世界变小了……
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