欧美文化博览 超级城市纽约 (9)

They replaced ties, track, ductwork and strung almost 100 hundred kilometers of cable. All the while, other crews worked 16-hour days, 6 days a week to rebuild the entire station from scratch.

他们替换了各种设施，包括管道系统和近1万公里长的电缆。这段时间其他人员工作按照一天工作16小时、一周工作6天从零开始重建整个车站。

In November 2003, the station reopened, the first public space to open on the trade centre site since 9.11. Workers finished the job one month ahead of schedule.

2003年11月,车站重新开放, 这是自9.11以来贸易中心第一个公共开放场所。工人提前一个月完成这项工作。

"They said it couldn't be done but it was done."

“他们说这不可能,但我们就是完成了。”

Yet the real work has just begun. This station is only temporary. From unprecedented¹ tragedy has emerged a rare opportunity, the chance to reinvent the ancient infrastructure² at the heart of the modern megacity. This gaping³ hole is destined⁴ to become a thriving hub.

不过,真正的工作才刚刚开始。这个车站只是暂时的。从前所未有的悲剧中已经出现一个难得的机会,那就是重新塑造处于现代大都市核心地位的古代基础设施。这个位置注定要成为繁华性的地标建筑。

We are going to build a new transit⁵-center here now, and that is the first terminal that Lower Manhattan will have.

我们现在在这里要建造一个新的传输中心,这是第一个曼哈顿终端。

Charles A. Gargano is Vice⁶ Chairman of the Port Authority. His vision of a new Path station is destined to link up with another bold transformation⁷, just blocks away. With more than a quarter million entries, exits, and transfers each day, Fulton Street is the busiest subway station in Lower Manhattan. It's also the most confusing, a subterranean⁸ jigsaw⁹ puzzle and pieces don't fit.

查尔斯?格朗克是当局的副主席。他对于新帕斯站的远见是注定要与另一个大胆的变换联系起来,只是街区。每天超过几百万人进出和换乘,富尔顿是曼哈顿最繁忙的地铁车站。它也最令人费解, 好似不合适的地下拼图碎片。

The Fulton Street subway station is actually a complex of 6 stations built over three decades to serve 12 competing subway lines, each fighting for passengers. Discouraging transfers between lines were deliberately¹⁰ built-in. For almost a century, commuters groped through this transit nightmare. Then it got worse. When the Path Train station was built, no one envisoned a link to Fulton. The result, two key rail-hubs and no connection. Now comes a multi-billion-dollar operation to untangle veins¹¹ and unclog arteries¹².

富尔顿街地铁站实际上是过去三十年间建造的地铁线路，它是6个地铁站的复合，为12条竞争着的地铁线路服务争夺乘客。线路间令人沮丧换乘故意被设置在内。近一个世纪以来,交通通勤者好像噩梦般摸索着这个地铁站。然后情况变得更加糟糕。当帕斯站始建的时候,没有一个首先链接到富尔顿。结果,两个关键线路没有联系。于是现在出现了一种数十亿美元的方案用以解决此问题。

1 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

2 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

3 gaping   

adj.口的；张口的；敞口的；多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 )；张开，张大

参考例句：

• Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
• The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 destined   

adj.命中注定的；(for)以…为目的地的

参考例句：

• It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
• The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。

5 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

6 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

7 transformation   

n.变化；改造；转变

参考例句：

• Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
• He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。

8 subterranean   

adj.地下的，地表下的

参考例句：

• London has 9 miles of such subterranean passages.伦敦像这样的地下通道有9英里长。
• We wandered through subterranean passages.我们漫游地下通道。

9 jigsaw   

n.缕花锯，竖锯，拼图游戏；vt.用竖锯锯，使互相交错搭接

参考例句：

• A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.一副拼图就能让我沉醉几个小时。
• Tom likes to work on jigsaw puzzles,too.汤姆也喜欢玩拼图游戏。

10 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

11 veins   

n.纹理；矿脉( vein的名词复数 )；静脉；叶脉；纹理

参考例句：

• The blood flows from the capillaries back into the veins. 血从毛细血管流回静脉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I felt a pleasant glow in all my veins from the wine. 喝过酒后我浑身的血都热烘烘的，感到很舒服。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 arteries   

n.动脉( artery的名词复数 )；干线，要道

参考例句：

• Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》