The Hatheld Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer , Mr. John Wimpenny, is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.

HatfieldPuffin是一架新式飞机，但它的设计人JohnWimpenny先生发现，要使它从地面起飞很困难。

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Despite its immensity, it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designer ’s dream to create ’an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible’.

尽管此桥很大，但它的结构简单，造型优美，实现了设计者企图创造一个，“尽量用细线条勾画出一个庞然大物”的梦想。

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The bridge is so long that the shape of the earth had to be taken into account by its designer .

由于桥身太长，设计者不得不考虑了地表的形状。

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The phrase go back to the drawing board comes from Peter Arno, who worked as a cartoonist for New Yorker magazine. In 1941, he made a cartoon showing military men running toward a crashed plane. The designer of plane is seen walking away with his designs under his arm. The caption says, "Well, back to the old drawing board".

Go back to the drawing board这句短语出自于彼得·阿诺（Peter Arno），他是“纽约客”杂志的漫画家。1941年，他画了一副漫画，画面是军人们冲向一架坠毁的飞机，还可以看到飞机设计师把自己的设计方案夹在胳膊下走开。标题写道，“Well, back to the old drawing board”。

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