(单词翻译:单击)
Shiny and safe, the goal of New York itself.
又闪亮又安全,这也是纽约本身的目标 。
Three decades ago, both the city and the subway shared the bad reputation: dirty, unsafe and no place to be.
三十多年前,城市和地铁都享有着坏名声:肮脏、不安全、无人问津的地方 。
New York cleaned up its image partly by cleaning up the subway.
通过清理地铁,纽约重新清理了它的形象 。
At the Coney Island Yard, they do more than keep the trains running, they keep the Big Apple polished.
在康尼岛,他们不只是让火车运营,他们还给大苹果抛光 。
No job too small, no job too big, lifetime guarantee, how can you beat it? Send us these troubles.
没有太小的工作,没有太大的工作,寿命保证,你怎么还在犹豫?告诉我们你的麻烦吧 。
On the subway, keeping car safe is only half the equation.
在地铁上,保持车辆只是工作的一半 。
The system has more than 2600 switches to move trains from one track to another and more than 11,000 signals to control train traffic.
该系统具有2600多个开关使列车移动到另一轨道,超过11000个信号来控制列车交通 。
The equipment is older than most New Yorkers.
该设备的岁数比大多数纽约人还老 。
Much of it was installed before 1940. All together, more than 13,000 chances for something to go fatally wrong. New York can't take that chance.
很多都是安装于1940年以前 。合在一起, 对于致命错误有超过13000次机会解决 。但纽约不能抓住这个机遇 。
To sidetrack catastrophe, maintenance workers go looking for trouble every day.
对于侧线的灾难,维修人员每一天都在寻找麻烦 。
To find it, the crew themselves must venture into harms way.
为了发现它,小组人员必须自己冒着受到伤害的危险 。
注:听力文本来源于普特