欧美文化博览 超级城市纽约 (22)

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 equation¹.

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 catastrophe², maintenance³ 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。

1 equation   

n.方程式，等式，等同

参考例句：

• The solution can be expressed by a mathematical equation.答案可用一个数学方程式来表示。
• This equation is known as the ideal gas law.这个等式被叫做理想气体定律。

2 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

3 maintenance   

n.维修，保养，扶养费，维持，保持

参考例句：

• His small farm provides maintenance,but not much more.他的小农场能使他们维持生活，但仅此而已。
• He has to pay maintenance to his ex-wife.他必须给前妻赡养费。