英国人拍视频体验中国高铁：引发全民吐槽

 　　Video was taken by an UK traveller, showing the boarding procedure, stations, business class lounge, scenery and each of the seating classes on the train.

　　一名英国游客拍下了这段视频。视频里展示了其乘坐高铁的过程，候车大厅，贵宾候车室，沿途的风景，以及高铁列车上的各个等级的客舱。

　　The journey started from Shanghai Hongqiao and ended at Beijing South, covering 1,318 km in 4 hours 55 minutes.

　　其乘坐的高铁列车始发站为上海虹桥，终点站为北京南站，全程1318千米，时长4小时55分。

　　部分评论：

　　William T

　　China is far from the most advanced country but China had developed in such speed that no other country in the history can be matched.  However, mentality¹ and mannerism² cannot be changed or improved over night and that may take much longer time to do. But this doesn't mean we only concentrate on the negatives in China but must recognize the positives.

　　虽说中国距离世界上顶尖发达国家还很远，但中国发展速度之快却是无可睥睨的。虽然，一个国家的精神意识和文明程度不可能在昼夜之间发生质变，但这并不代表我们必须盯着中国负面的内容。我们也应该看到中国的进步。

　　Regina Johnson

　　Why is there no will power to build trains like this in the US! Can you imagine being able to get from NY to LA in 2-3 hours?

　　为啥美国就没人想修建高铁呢？想想看吧，从纽约到洛杉矶只需要2-3个小时！

　　reza jomhori

　　I'm from Iran. I had a chance to visit China 3 years ago and fortunately had a tripe³ with fast train from Shanghai to Beijing. It was a fantastic experience for me. Fast much more than 300 kilometers per hour but no shaking in your seat. Everybody has his opinion but for me the best advantages to use fast train in there was the view of nature like the river and green lands that I saw during my trip that I couldn't saw if I had trip by plain from Shanghai to Beijing.

　　我来自伊朗，3年前曾去过中国，并有幸搭乘了京沪高铁。那真是一段美妙的经历！高铁每小时可达到300公里的时速，却一点也不抖。对于我来说，坐高铁最棒的优势在于可以沿途看看河流和绿地这样的自然风景，如果我坐飞机从上海到北京，就看不到这么美的风光了。

　　Randomrazr

　　and the US and Canada doesnt have this because.....

　　谁能告诉我为啥美国和加拿大就不行？

　　-Nia T

　　because of the costs ! haha

　　因为太贵，哈哈！

　　-Joe mariconadas

　　U.S. and Canada is busy on how to figure out how to fleece taxpayers⁴ and not build anything. In Toronto, they argue for over 10 years to extend 5 miles of subway tunnel. In China they build while in the west we talk and point fingers at each other. And also in US and Canada we build useless bureaucracies to enforce stupid and irrelevant⁵ business unfriendly regulations. That's why the Chinese and other Asian countries are getting ahead as we stagnate⁶.

　　美国和加拿大都在忙着从老百姓身上抽税，却根本不知道该拿钱去干什么。在多伦多，为了修建一个5英里长的地下隧道，他们喋喋不休争吵了10多年！当我们这些西方人B个没完忙着互相指责对方的时候，中国却在干！人！事！还有，在美国和加拿大，我们把钱都扔给了那些毫无用处的官僚机构，让他们制定出愚蠢又无关痛痒、不利于商业发展的规章制度。这就是为什么中国和其他亚洲国家能够领先止步不前的西方的原因！

1 mentality   

n.心理，思想，脑力

参考例句：

• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
• Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。

2 mannerism   

n.特殊习惯，怪癖

参考例句：

• He has this irritating mannerism of constantly scratching his nose.他老是挠鼻子，这个习惯真让人不舒服。
• Her British accent is just a mannerism picked up on her visit to London.她的英国口音是她访问伦敦学会的。

3 tripe   

n.废话，肚子, 内脏

参考例句：

• I can't eat either tripe or liver.我不吃肚也不吃肝。
• I don't read that tripe.我才不看那种无聊的东西呢。

4 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

5 irrelevant   

adj.不恰当的，无关系的，不相干的

参考例句：

• That is completely irrelevant to the subject under discussion.这跟讨论的主题完全不相关。
• A question about arithmetic is irrelevant in a music lesson.在音乐课上，一个数学的问题是风马牛不相及的。

6 stagnate   

v.停止

参考例句：

• Where the masses are not roused,work will stagnate.哪里不发动群众，哪里的工作就死气沉沉。
• Taiwan's economy is likely to stagnate for a long time to come.台湾经济很可能会停滞很长一段时间。