Neil Armstrong had a farm after NASA, so he never bought the farm during the Korean war, as a test pilot nor on either of his two space missions.
"He bought the farm" means: a. to pay for a farm b. to pay for the farm c. to get a farm d. not pay e. none of the above.
日本語訳
ニール・アームストロングはNASAでの仕事を終えたあと農場を持ちました。しかし、朝鮮戦争中も、テストパイロットだったときも、2度の宇宙飛行中も bought the farm というわけではありません。「He bought the farm」は、a 農場の代金を払う、b その農場の代金を払う、c 農場を手に入れる、d 払わない、e どれでもない、のどれでしょう。
解答・解説
Answer And Explanation The answer is: e.none of the above. He bought the farmmeans to die and was originally coined by pilots who crashed into farms in test flights or in air battle. Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969, served for seven years as a research pilot at the NACA-NASA High-Speed Flight Station, now the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, California, before he entered the space program. Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (later NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and today the Glenn Research Center) in 1955. Later that year, he transferred to the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards as an aeronautical research scientist and then as a pilot, a position he held until becoming an astronaut in 1962. He was one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen. As a research pilot Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100A and F-100C aircraft, F-101, and the F-104A. He also flew the X-1B, X-5, F-105, F-106, B-47, KC-135, and Paresev. He left Dryden with a total of over 2450 flying hours. He was a member of the USAF-NASA Dyna-Soar Pilot Consultant Group before the Dyna-Soar project was cancelled, and studied X-20 Dyna-Soar approaches and abort maneuvers through use of the F-102A and F5D jet aircraft. Armstrong was actively engaged in both piloting and engineering aspects of the X-15 program from its inception. He completed the first flight in the aircraft equipped with a new flow-direction sensor (ball nose) and the initial flight in an X-15 equipped with a self-adaptive flight control system. He worked closely with designers and engineers in development of the adaptive system, and made seven flights in the rocket plane from December 1960 until July 1962. During those fights he reached a peak altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3, and a speed of 3,989 mph (Mach 5.74) in the X-15-1. Armstrong has a total of 8 days and 14 hours in space, including 2 hours and 48 minutes walking on the Moon. In March 1966 he was commander of the Gemini 8 or (more at https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-111-AFRC.html)
正解は e。「buy the farm」はここでは「死ぬ」という慣用表現です。原文は、農場に墜落したパイロットに由来すると説明しています。
