so America and the EU have been trying to reach a deal which would eliminate the need to double-test many products.

美国和欧洲一直在寻求达成协议，以便为许多产品取消双重检查。

knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do,

明白了有人会继续我的未竟事业，

No two sorts of birds practise quite the same sort of flight;

没有任何两种鸟的飞行方式是相同的。

and the railway of the future may well be the 'hovertrain',

未来的火车或许能成为气垫火车，

We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，

The captive elephant, still roped to a tree,

捕来拴在树上的大象，