【看新闻学英语】振奋英国学子的绿色赛车

【新唐人2011年10月27日讯】【看新闻学英语】

Green Car Race Electrifies British Students
振奋英国学子的绿色赛车

By Daniel Chen, David Lee

【新闻关键字】

1. Electrify [ɪˋlɛktrə͵faɪ] v. 使充电；使激动
2. Endurance [ɪnˋdjʊrəns] n. 耐久
3. Identical [aɪˋdɛntɪk!] adj. 同一的
4. Quarantine [ˋkwɔrən͵tin] n. 隔离
5. Pit [pɪt] n. （赛车中途的）维修站
6. Lap [læp] n. 圈数
7. Springboard [ˋsprɪŋ͵bord] v. 成为跳板
8. Aerodynamics [͵ɛrodaɪˋnæmɪks] n. 空气动力学
9. Aptly [ˋæptlɪ] adv. 适切地

Designed, built and raced by teenagers.
由青少年设计、建造、比赛。

This is the Greenpower Education Trust’s annual endurance race – a four hour test of engineering and teamwork – with all the cars using identical batteries and electric motors, says Greenpower’s Emma Tyler.
绿色能源的艾玛泰勒表示，这是绿色能源教育信托基金的年度耐久赛 – 一项四小时的工程技术和团队合作测验。所有车子都使用相同的电池和电子马达。

[Emma Tyler, Greenpower Education Trust]:
“They have two batteries on the car, they have four batteries in quarantine — they can swap them over in a series of pit stops. So they’ve also got to work out their pit strategy and their team work as well as all the engineering."
绿色能源教育信托基金的艾玛泰勒说：“他们车上有两组电池，有四组电池在隔离区。他们可以在赛道上一系列的维修站更换。所以他们也得思考进站的策略、他们的团队合作，以及所有的工程面。”

Teams must have six drivers and six pit staff and cars must have a maximum speed of 25mph (40kmh) – the test is how many laps can you complete within the timescale.
团队必需要有六名驾驶和六名维修站工作人员，而且车子必须有每小时25英里的最高速度（每小时40公里）– 测验你能在时间表内完成多少圈。

80 teams from around the country won a place at the Goodwood race track final – racing creations made from wood to aluminium – inspiring the next generation of British engineers and their parents, according to Tom Bollard from the Malting School in Essex.
据雅息士郡麦町学校的汤姆波兰德表示，来自全国各地的80组队，最后赢得了古德伍德赛道的席位 – 从木制到铝制的赛车创作 – 激励了下一世代的英国工程师和他们的家长。

[Tom Bolland, Maltings Academy]:
“We started off two years ago with a kit car which we purchased through Greenpower, that allowed us to springboard into a competitive region so that we could teach the students about aerodynamics, about physics about the general design principle behind creating a race car."
麦町学院的汤姆波兰德说：“我们从两年前跟绿色能源购买汽车工具包开始，这使我们成为一个迈向竞争区块的跳板，使我们能教导学生有关空气动力学，也就是制造一辆赛车背后一般设计原则的物理知识。”

This year’s race was won by Chipping Sodbury School’s Rotary Racer – aptly numbered No 1.
启平沙伯瑞学校的旋转赛车赢得了今年的比赛 – 很巧妙地，它的编号是1。

本则影音新闻出处：新唐人电视台英语新闻
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_europe/2011-10-19/green-car-race-electrifies-british-students.html

We started off two years ago. 我们从两年前开始