American soldiers began using the term gremlin during the war.

美国士兵在战争时开始使用这个单词。

Gremlins would operate in fleets, under ultimate human control.

们会在人类的终端控制下编队行动。

They had a name for this creature: a gremlin.

他们给它起了个名字叫。

Today Americans use " gremlin" when talking about small magical creatures.

现在美国人用" gremlin" 这个单词表示的神奇生物。

These drones, which, like Gremlins, unfold their wings after launch, have a wingspan of 2.5 metres.

这些无人机和样，发射后会展开机翼，翼展有2.5米。

Gremlins should therefore be thought of as " tradable" for systems of greater value, says Mr Wierzbanowski.

所以应该把视为“可交易”更高价值的系统，维尔兹巴诺夫基表示。

Ooh! Yeah, you too, ya little gremlin.

噢 还有你这个家伙儿。

Yeah, it was you. Wash your damn hands, you gremlin.

没错 就是你 把你的脏手洗干净 鬼。

Rapid advances in many areas have supported the optimists' case that the gremlins in the new techniques can be overcome in time.

很多领域的迅速发展为这些乐观者提供了支持—新术中的捣蛋鬼迟早会被克服。

This way, Gremlins would flush out the position of any hostile missile battery that switched on its targeting radar, marking it for subsequent destruction.

任何敌方导弹阵地打开瞄准雷达，就拿到了它的方位，把它标记下来以待后续摧毁。

That, at least, is the idea. So far, though Gremlins have managed to come within centimetres of successful capture, such capture has not been achieved.

至少想法是这样的。到目前为止，尚未被成功捕获过——还差那么几厘米。

But the most important thing to be tested will be how well Gremlins are able to co-operate-for instance, by swapping tasks as circumstances evolve.

但最重要的是测试们的协作能力，比如随环境变化而交换任务。

To that end DARPA, the defence department's advanced research projects agency, is running a programme called Gremlins, a name that also applies to the individual drones themselves.

为此，美国国防部高级研究计划局（DARPA）正在开展项名为“”（Gremlins）的项目，参与项目的无人机也叫这个名字。

As with Gremlins and Sparrowhawks, the army's push for what it calls " air-launched effects" is driven by America's shift from counterinsurgency to potential war with a foreign power.

和及雀鹰样，美国陆军之所以要推动它所说的“空中发射效应术，是因为美国已从平息叛乱转向了应对与外国的潜在战争。

But Dynetics hopes some software tweaks will deal with this by the summer, when operational testing of the Gremlins system by the air force is supposed to begin.

但Dynetics希望些软件上的改进可以在今年夏天之前解决这个问题，届时美国空军应该会启动对系统的实操测试。

A successful capture shuts off the Gremlin's engine. A winch then hoists the drone on board. This arrangement should be able to pull eight Gremlins an hour out of the air.

捕获成功后，的发动机就会关闭，再由绞盘将它拉上飞机。这种方式应该能在时内从空中拉回八架。

It's a reference to a 1963 episode of " The Twilight Zone, " in which Shatner's character sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane.

这出自“阴阳魔界”的个片段，剧中沙特那在机翼上看见个鬼怪。

If you don't live in the Twilight Zone, your chances of pulling open an airplane door mid-flight are just as good as seeing a gremlin on the wing.

如果你没有生活在《阴阳魔界》，在飞行中拉开舱门的可能性和看到机翼上的怪物样大。

Bob sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane and decides the only possible solution to the problem is to steal the air marshal's gun, open the emergency exit, and shoot the thing.

剧集中鲍勃看到机翼上有个怪物，而唯可能解决问题的办法是偷走空乘的枪，并打开紧急出口朝怪物开枪。