文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文，第一部分讲的是Weldon学院的校长和他的同伴的震惊；第二部分讲的是Albatross的船长和客人的体验；第三部分主要讲的是Albatross的速度。
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To show surprise
The President of the Weldon Institute was 1 (目瞪口呆的); his companion was 2 (十分震惊的). But neither of them would allow any of 3 (他们的惊讶被人瞅见).
To display aims
That is a foretaste of the nature of the relations that were to obtain between the master of the “Albatross” and his guests, not to say his prisoners. Manifestly he wished to give them time 4 (冷静下来), 5 (去欣赏偌大的机器) which was bearing them through the air, and doubtless 6 (去称赞发明者). And so he went off to the other end of the deck, leaving them 7 (去检查机器的布局) and the management of the ship or to give their whole attention to the landscape which was unrolling beneath them.
To demonstrate speed
In fact, the speed 8 (已经翻倍), and now 9 (已超越任何东西) that had ever been attained by terrestrial Engines. Torpedo-boats do their twenty-two knots an hour; railway trains do 10 (一个小时六十英里); the ice-boats on the frozen Hudson do their sixty-five miles an hour; a machine built by the Patterson company, with a cogged wheel, has done its eighty miles; and another locomotive between Trenton and Jersey35 City has done its eighty-four.
But the “Albatross,” 11 (以全速), could do her hundred and twenty miles an hour, or 176 feet per second. This speed is that of the storm 12 (能把树连根拔起的). It is the mean speed of the carrier pigeon, and is only surpassed by the flight of the swallow (220 feet per second) and that of the swift (274 feet per second).
In a word, as Robur had said, the “Albatross,” by using the whole force of her screws, could 13 (创造两百个小时的或不到八天的全球之旅).
