The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner constructed in the early 1900s, measuring 883 feet long or approximately 269 metres with a total of 10 decks.

皇家邮轮泰坦尼克号，是一艘建于1900年代初的英国邮轮，长883英尺，约269米，总共有10层甲板。

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania in May 1915 with the loss of almost 1,200 lives including 128 Americans caused outrage among the American public.

1915 年 5 月，卢西塔尼亚号客轮沉没，造成近 1,200 人丧生，其中包括 128 名美国人，引起了美国公众的愤怒。

1940 saw the invention of a jet engine by a British engineer Frank Whittle, thus used in fighter planes towards the end of the Second World War, and in commercial passenger liners from 1949, with the British de Havilland Comet.

1940年英国工程师弗兰克·惠特尔发明喷气发动机后，这项技术用于战斗机中直至第二次世界大战结束, 而商用机领域则从1949年的英国哈维兰彗星型客机开始。