By Imogen Foulkes, Berne

體英語(yǔ)會(huì)帶大家一起學(xué)習(xí)BBC撰稿人在報(bào)道世界大事時(shí)常用到的單詞和短語(yǔ)。

Background: 背景：一架太陽(yáng)能試驗(yàn)飛機(jī)在瑞士成功完成了第一次試航。陽(yáng)光動(dòng)力是瑞士冒險(xiǎn)家Bertrand Piccard 的寶貝。1999年他成為世界上第一個(gè)用熱氣球完成其不間斷環(huán)球旅行的人。他的夢(mèng)想是在2012年能駕駛太陽(yáng)能飛機(jī)環(huán)繞世界。

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The long-awaited take-off of the Solar Impulse was greeted with delight by those who have spent the last seven years working on it.

The solar-powered plane has the wing-span of a jumbo jet, but weighs less than a family car.

It doesn't use a single drop of aviation fuel, instead its giant wings are covered with solar cells.

The project is the brainchild of Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard - he sees the Solar Impulse as a sign of things to come.

"I don't know exactly how commercial airliners will fly in twenty years. But I know for sure that they are not going to fly like today. If an aeroplane can fly around the world with no fuel, nobody can say afterwards that it's impossible to do the same for cars or heating systems or whatever."

But the Solar Impulse won't replace conventional air travel. Its top speed is just 44 miles an hour (70kph).

Nevertheless Bertrand Piccard hopes to fly the plane around the world in 2012, thus continuing a long family tradition.

His grandfather was the first man to take a balloon into the stratosphere.

His father took a submarine to the deepest point of the Pacific Ocean.

Now Bertrand Piccard hopes to show the world just what can be achieved with a little bit of sunshine.