文化博览:超级城市纽约 (22)
日期:2012-03-14 14:52

(单词翻译:单击)

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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dPj^3FjU%n1&s

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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h_J+2c]P=M4Oj

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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S91MSjWu&%cElGV

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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Ge[V[K)aRlm5@aN1.[%

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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yzA9dlCWOTX~

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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k%c+7m7Xpl%;QeqZ3Ij7

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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^0;lcY-[+eR+2Bp

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The equipment is older than most New Yorkers.
该设备的岁数比大多数纽约人还老YSqyl50ZzkSQ03qQF

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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WS+Pkfu653oC!J6Zd。合在一起, 对于致命错误有超过13000次机会解决tW^-0%,jf^)=AhxX。但纽约不能抓住这个机遇9UJDGd@jV3Ytp

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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uEoVPldBYmBDy(n

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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6IIt&+!H%go(e;Fi
注:听力文本来源于普特

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重点单词
  • controln. 克制,控制,管制,操作装置 vt. 控制,掌管,支
  • polishedadj. 擦亮的;优美的;圆滑的 v. 擦亮(polis
  • beatv. 打败,战胜,打,敲打,跳动 n. 敲打,拍子,心跳
  • crewn. 全体船员,全体乘务员,(一组)工作人员 vi
  • maintenancen. 维护,保持,维修,生活费用 n. 供给,抚养; 主
  • equationn. 相等,方程(式), 等式,均衡
  • guaranteen. 保证,保证书,担保,担保人,抵押品 vt. 保证,
  • trackn. 小路,跑道,踪迹,轨道,乐曲 v. 跟踪,追踪
  • venturen. 冒险,风险,投机 v. 尝试,谨慎地做,冒险一试
  • reputationn. 声誉,好名声