In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life – few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers – but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
在他的案例研究住宅中，拉尔夫·拉普森可能错误地预测了机械革命将如何影响日常生活——很少有美国家庭拥有直升机，尽管大多数最终都拥有了干衣机——但他认为自给自足既是可取的也是不可避免的，这一信念在当时被广泛认同。
Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters).
王子和公主们现在都有正经的工作，骑自行车而不是骑马（或直升机）。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。