太陽動力號完成歷史性環球之旅
BBC News – The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi.
BBC新聞 – 太陽動力飛機在阿布扎比着陸，由太陽能驅動的首次環球飛行就此完成。
Bertrand Piccard piloted the plane for a final time, steering it safely from the Egyptian capital Cairo to the UAE. He has been taking turns at the controls with Swiss compatriot Andre Borschberg, with the mission aiming to promote renewable energy.
貝特蘭.皮卡德最後一次駕駛飛機，從埃及首都開羅安全開到了阿聯酋。他與瑞士同胞安德烈.博什伯格輪流駕駛，帶着旨在推行可再生能源的使命。
It brings to an end a voyage that began in Abu Dhabi on 9 March last year. "The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now. Let's take it further,'' Mr Piccard said, arriving into Abu Dhabi to cheers and applause.
它給去年3月9日始於阿布達比的航程劃上了句號。“未來是清潔的。未來是你的。未來就是現在。讓我們百尺竿頭更進一步。”皮卡德在抵達進入阿布扎比受到歡呼和掌聲迎接時說。
The 17-stage journey covered some 42,000km, taking in four continents, three seas and two oceans. The longest leg, an 8,924km flight from Nagoya in Japan to Hawaii, US, lasted nearly 118 hours and saw Mr Borschberg break the absolute world record for longest (time duration) uninterrupted solo flight. It was just one of 19 official aviation records set during the global adventure.
分成17段的航行全程約4.2萬公里，經過四大洲，三個海域和兩個大洋。最長一段是從日本名古屋到美國夏威夷，持續近118個小時，見證博什伯格打破了不間斷獨自飛行持續時間最長的絕對世界紀錄。這只是此次環球冒險之旅中創造的19個正式飛行紀錄之一。
Solar Impulse is no heavier than a car, but has the wingspan of a Boeing 747. It is powered by 17,000 solar cells. Its experimental design presents a number of technical difficulties, with the airplane being very sensitive to weather conditions.
太陽動力飛機不比一輛小汽車重,但有着波音747的翼展。它由1.7萬個太陽能電池驅動。由於飛機對天氣條件十分敏感，它的實驗設計提出了許多技術難點。
Indeed, the passage from Cairo was very bumpy for Mr Piccard as he battled severe turbulence above the hot Saudi desert. The cockpit is about the size of a public telephone box, with the pilots having to wear oxygen tanks to breathe at high altitude and permitted to only sleep for 20 minutes at a time.
其實，從開羅出發後的航程非常顛簸，皮卡德與炎熱的沙特阿拉伯沙漠上空的強氣流搏鬥。駕駛艙跟公共電話亭的大小差不多，飛行員在高空得戴着氧氣罩，每次只被允許睡上20分鐘。
