What is an aeronaut? asked Wilbur.

“怎么叫飞天蜘蛛？”威尔伯问它。

We are aeronauts and we are going out into the world to make webs for ourselves.

我们是飞天蜘蛛，我们正在到世界上去结我们的网。”

When a violent gust of wind made a tear near the top of the balloon, there were fears for the barnyard aeronauts.

当一阵强风掠过在汽球上方时，这些来自谷仓院子里的气球乘客们开始害怕了。

Sometimes the air would cut our breath short, as is experienced by aeronauts ascending too rapidly.

有时，空气会使我们呼吸急促， 就像升得太快的飞行员所经历的那样。

Six. Another record: On January 17,1991, entrepreneur Richard Branson and Swedish engineer Per Lindstrand became the first " aeronauts" (that's the official term) to cross the Pacific Ocean.

六、另外一个记录：1991 年 1 月 17 日，企业家理查德·布兰森和瑞典工程师佩尔·林德斯特兰德成为首位飞越太平洋的“气球驾驶员”（这是官方术语）。

Aeronauts find the want of air as they rise to high elevations, but we shall perhaps have too much: of the two, this is what I should prefer.

飞行员在上升到高海拔时会发现缺乏空气，但我们可能会拥有太多空气：两者之中，这就是什么我应该更愿意。