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

厄尼照办了，扇着尼克朝前走，像艘没有声音的黑色气垫。

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

气垫运动时依靠的是什么？

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

气垫把气垫离水面约1.5米的高度。

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

从那以后，各种各样的气垫出现了，并开始了定期航行服务。

What is a hovercraft riding on when it is in motion

当气垫在运动时，气垫的最佳方式是什么？

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了。

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

还有艘早期的气垫，潜水器，和辆曾经驰骋于南极洲的卡车。

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。

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

气垫真正的黄金时代是80年代。

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.

气垫能在陆地和水面上无缝滑行，是与众不同的多功能交通工具。

Imagine if we could design the hovercraft wheelchair.

想象下， 如果我们可以设计气垫轮椅。

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

私人气垫永远不会流行，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。

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，现在你可以看它底有多大。

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

我不认为气垫没有未来。

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

气垫先是在水面上行驶，后又登上海岸，爬上沙丘，最后停在路上。

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

你必须要能用气垫做些普通做不的事情。

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.

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