C919商業(yè)首飛成功后，這篇文章在外網(wǎng)火了

2023-06-02 17:00 作者:中國日報網(wǎng) 0人讀過 | 我要投稿

2023年5月28日，我國國產(chǎn)大飛機C919迎來首次商業(yè)飛行。中國航空業(yè)的這一歷史性時刻不僅讓國人為之驕傲，也吸引了不少國際友人的關(guān)注。

5月31日，一篇文章在國外社交媒體推特上悄然走紅。文章的作者Ines Laimins（李美思）是一名美國演員，曾出演多部中國電視劇。C919商業(yè)首飛的成功，勾起了她35年前在中國乘坐飛機旅行的回憶。

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In 1986 I spent two months visiting mainland China.

1986年，我在中國度過了2個月的旅行時光。

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In 1986, independent travel on the mainland was difficult and getting a seat on an airplane was nearly impossible. You had to line up at the air travel office, hope for an open seat, and then be denied day after day. Maybe even weeks. After days of lining up, I was lucky to get a ticket for only internal flight I took, Shanghai to Kunming.

彼時在中國個人游并非易事，要想購得一張飛機票更是近乎不可能，需要在航空公司排隊，盼望著有座位開放，然后（購票請求）日復(fù)一日地被拒絕。大約在數(shù)周后，經(jīng)過數(shù)日的等待，我幸運地獲得了一張由上海飛往昆明的機票。

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That plane trip was eye-opening.

那趟飛行可謂大開眼界。

I boarded an old Soviet made propeller plane by a rickety stair case.

我登上了一架蘇制的螺旋槳飛機，飛機的舷梯晃晃悠悠。

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The seats seemed to have been recently bolted into the floor, poor air circulation, no meal service, no rules about what you could bring on board, and certainly no rules on having to remain seated. Like train travel back then, you could bring most anything on board. All sorts of food, wrapped parcels of specially items from your province, and even large burlap bags wrapped in twine blocked the aisles.

飛機的座位看起來像是剛安裝的，客艙通風(fēng)狀況較差，且機上不提供餐食?？蜋C并沒有規(guī)定旅客可以帶什么東西登機，當然也沒有規(guī)定乘客必須一直在座位上坐著。就像那時候的火車一樣，你幾乎可以帶任何東西上飛機。各種食物，打包好的家鄉(xiāng)特產(chǎn)，甚至連用麻繩捆好的大麻袋，都堵在過道上。

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There was only one airline back then, CAAC Airlines, formerly the People's Aviation Company of China.

那時，中國只有一家航空公司——中國民航，前身是中國人民航空公司。

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The airplane I boarded looked like the one below.

我坐的那架飛機和下圖中的一樣。?

Two years after my flight, in 1988, CAAC Airlines split into six separate airlines, each named after the geographic region of their main operating areas.

1988年，在那趟旅行后的2年，中國民航被分成了6家航空公司，每家都以其主要的運營區(qū)域的地理區(qū)劃來命名。

These later consolidated into China's Big Three airlines: Beijing-based Air China, Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines, and Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines.

這些公司后來合并為中國三大航空公司：總部位于北京的中國國際航空公司、總部位于廣州的中國南方航空公司和總部位于上海的中國東方航空公司。

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I never could have imagined then that some 35 years later the country would have built more than 240 modern airports as well as it's first homegrown COMAC C919 airplane that just took flight last week.

我從沒想到35年后，中國已經(jīng)建成了超過240座現(xiàn)代化機場，中國國產(chǎn)大飛機C919上周也迎來首次商業(yè)飛行。

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Now every time I land in a new airport in China, I think back to the days of difficult air travel in 1986 and the rapid changes I have personally witnessed. In 35 years it has taken a focused and organized plan mixed with hard work and dedication to bring their domestic airline industry up to the world’s most modern standards. I have no doubt that the new era of aircraft manufacturing starting with the Comac C919 will exceed all expectations.

現(xiàn)在每當在中國的新機場降落時，我都會想起1986年在中國的那次困難的旅行，以及我親眼見證中國發(fā)生的快速變化。這35年來，（中國）采取了有重點、有組織的計劃，加上（中國人）辛勤的工作和奉獻精神，使中國航空業(yè)達到了世界現(xiàn)代化標準。我毫不懷疑，從C919開始的中國商用飛機制造新時代將超出所有人的預(yù)期。