It all started when Orville was 7 and Wilbur was 11 years old. Their father, Bishop Milton Wright, gave them a toy helicopter (直升机). It really flew. That toy made them dream of flying.
这一切都始于奥维尔7岁和威尔伯11岁那年。他们的父亲米尔顿·莱特主教送给他们一架玩具直升机。它真的飞起来了。那个玩具使他们梦想飞行。
The boys still wanted to know about flight as they grew up. They read everything they could find about it. They studied what other people learned about flight.
男孩们长大后仍然想了解飞行。他们把能找到的一切都读了。他们研究了其他人对飞行的了解。
By 1900, the Wright Brothers were ready to test their first glider (滑翔机). It was like a kite. They studied the best place to fly. They picked a sandy spot in Kitty Hawk. They were getting closer to flying. Finally, on December 17, 1903, the time had come.
到1900年，莱特兄弟准备测试他们的第一架滑翔机。它就像一个风筝。他们研究了最佳的飞行地点。他们在基蒂霍克选了一个沙地。他们离试飞日期越来越近了。终于，在1903年12月17日，时机到了。
That day, they flew several times. Orville flew the Wright Flyer the first time. That flight lasted 12 seconds. It went 120 feet. Their second and third flights went up about 175 feet each. Wilbur flew the fourth flight of the day. It went 859 feet. It took 59 seconds. After that last flight, the wind blew very hard. It blew the Flyer across the sand. The plane was seriously destroyed.
那天，他们飞了好几次。奥维尔第一次驾驶莱特飞行器。那次飞行持续了12秒。它飞了120英尺。他们的第二次和第三次飞行分别上升了约175英尺。威伯飞了这一天的第四次飞行。它有859英尺高。这花了59秒。最后一次飞行后，风刮得很大。它把飞行者号吹过了沙滩。飞机严重损毁。
The Wright Brothers kept studying and testing new designs. They wanted to make their Flyer better. They began to teach others to fly. They even opened their own flying school. The brothers became rich and famous. Everything was going well for them.
莱特兄弟不断研究和测试新的设计。他们想把“飞行者号”做得更好。他们开始教别人飞行。他们甚至开办了自己的飞行学校。兄弟俩变得富有和出名。对他们来说，一切都很顺利。
We honor Orville and Wilbur for making the dream of flight come true, and for forever changing our world.
我们向奥维尔和威尔伯致敬，因为他们实现了飞行的梦想，永远改变了我们的世界。
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