Harry and Seamus swished and flicked, but the feather they were supposed to be sending skywards just lay on the desktop.

哈利和西莫一挥一抖，一挥一抖，做了一遍又一遍，但应该被他们送上空中的羽毛还是一动不动地躺在桌面上。

One Japanese species rockets skywards at a rate of a metre a day.

一种日本物种以每天一米的速度向天空飞去。

But his tendency to make great leaps from slight data meant his ideas often lacked solid foundations—much like his geodesic domes, novel structures that soared skywards without apparent support and occasionally came crashing down.

但他倾向于从微不足道的数据中取得巨大飞跃， 这意味着他的想法往往缺乏坚实的基础——就像他的测地线穹顶一样， 新颖的结构在没有明显支撑的情况下直冲云霄， 偶尔会轰然倒塌。