Taxi

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Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.

本·福西特上尉购买了一架不同寻常的“出租车”，并开始了一项新业务。

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The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.

这架“出租车”是一架名为“皮拉图斯搬运工”的瑞士小型飞机。

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This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.

这架奇妙的飞机能载七名乘客。

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The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.

然而，它最令人惊讶的地方是它能降落在任何地方：雪地、水面，甚至是一块耕过的田地。

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Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.

福西特上尉的第一位乘客是一位医生，他从伯明翰飞到威尔士山区的一个偏僻村庄。

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Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.

从那以后，福西特上尉已载送乘客去过许多不寻常的地方。

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Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.

他曾有一次降落在公寓楼的屋顶上，还有一次降落在废弃的停车场里。

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Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.

福西特上尉刚刚拒绝了一位商人提出的一个奇怪请求。

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The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean,

那位商人想飞到大西洋中的一座孤岛——罗科尔岛，

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but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

但福西特上尉没有载他，因为那次飞行太危险了。