如果有一天，你看到一架無(wú)人飛機(jī)掛著一個(gè)包裹出現(xiàn)在你家門(mén)口，不要驚訝——因?yàn)樗赡苁强爝f專用的“包裹機(jī)”。

Parcelcopter is an unmanned aircraft used to deliver goods.

“包裹機(jī)”指專門(mén)用來(lái)投遞物品的無(wú)人機(jī)。

For the first decade of this century, drones were associated primarily with military activity, but there has recently been an explosion of consumer applications. In addition to a surge of dronies (selfies taken by means of a drone-mounted camera), 2014 has seen several attempts to utilize drones as a means of delivering packages, with Amazon and Google each announcing experimental programmes, and DHL launching a delivery service utilizing a quadcopter drone it calls the “parcelcopter”.

本世紀(jì)的最初十年，無(wú)人機(jī)主要都是用作軍事活動(dòng)的，但近年來(lái)，它在消費(fèi)方面的應(yīng)用呈爆炸式增長(zhǎng)。除了無(wú)人機(jī)自拍（用安裝在無(wú)人機(jī)上的攝像頭拍下的自拍照）大增，2014年也有公司嘗試?yán)脽o(wú)人機(jī)送快遞包裹，亞馬遜和谷歌都宣布了試驗(yàn)項(xiàng)目，DHL也推出了利用四旋翼無(wú)人機(jī)送快遞的服務(wù)，該公司將這種無(wú)人機(jī)稱為“包裹機(jī)”。

（中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 祝興媛）