Photograph courtesy Keystone View Company
In 1932 the National Geographic Society awarded its Special Medal to Amelia Earhart, the first woman to make a solo transatlantic crossing. After receiving the medal, Earhart humbly remarked, "My flight has added nothing to aviation. After all, literally hundreds have crossed the Atlantic by air, if those who have gone in heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air craft are counted and those who have crossed the North and South Atlantic. However, I hope that the flight has meant something to women in aviation. If it has, I shall feel it was justified; but I can't claim anything else.”
solo - 单独的
transatlantic - 横断大西洋的，大西洋对岸的，大西洋两岸国家的
humbly - 谦虚地
aviation - 飞行，航空
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