Lake Union hums with the sound of seaplanes, but you can have fun skirting the edge on a bike or a boat. (Ann Cecil/LPI)

联合湖上水上飞机轰鸣，你可以骑自行车环湖游览，也可以坐船。

Then they learned that before the war Pan Am had been flying seaplanes on an Atlantic test route between Bermuda and the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

后来，他们了解到，在战争爆发之前，PanAm曾驾着飞行水上的飞机穿过了大西洋，途径百慕大之间的测试路线和葡萄牙的亚速尔群岛群岛。

Most airplanes are designed to operate from land; seaplanes are adapted to touch down on water, and carrier-based planes are modified for high-speed short takeoff and landing.

大部分飞机是设计从陆地起飞，水上飞机适合在水面上稍作停留，运输机则可作高速而短暂的起降动作。