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Today's high-speed trains will have you cruising along at 350 kilometres per hour.A ticket is about the same as a flight,and the door-to-door time on some of the world's most popular routes is the same, or less than getting a plane.

如今的高速列車(chē)可以讓你以每小時(shí)350公里的速度行駛。高鐵票價(jià)和飛機(jī)票價(jià)差不多，而且在世界上一些最受歡迎的線(xiàn)路上的交通時(shí)間也是一樣的，甚至比坐飛機(jī)還少。

But decades ago rail travel was in decline.It faced fierce competition from the air and auto industries.Then came Japan's bullet train.

但幾十年前，鐵路旅行正在走下坡路，它面臨著來(lái)自航空和汽車(chē)行業(yè)的激烈競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。 然后是日本的子彈頭列車(chē)便應(yīng)運(yùn)而生了。

By the late 1950s, Japan's economic miracle had transformed the war-ravaged nation.Its economy was growing quickly.The area between Tokyo and Osaka was booming with industry.People were flocking to the capital for workbut the rail line connecting the two major cities couldn't take the stress.

到20世紀(jì)50年代末，日本的經(jīng)濟(jì)奇跡改變了這個(gè)飽受戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)蹂躪的國(guó)家。 它的經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)迅速。 東京和大阪之間的地區(qū)工業(yè)蓬勃發(fā)展。 日本人紛紛涌向首都上班，但連接兩個(gè)主要城市的鐵路路線(xiàn)承受不了這種壓力。

Rather than being pulled by an engine in front,each carriage of the bullet train was driven by an individual electric motor,which has proven to be safer, faster and more efficient.

子彈頭列車(chē)的每節(jié)車(chē)廂不是由車(chē)頭的發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)驅(qū)動(dòng)，而是由每一節(jié)車(chē)廂都由一個(gè)單獨(dú)的電動(dòng)馬達(dá)驅(qū)動(dòng)，這也被證實(shí)是更安全、更快、更有效率的驅(qū)動(dòng)方式。

Apart from the train itself, the team also built wider tracks,which were more costly but allowed for greater stability and higher speeds.

除了火車(chē)，研究小組還修建了更寬的軌道，這些軌道造價(jià)更高，但可以提供更大的穩(wěn)定性和更高的速度。

3,000 bridges and 67 tunnels were built on the 515-kilometer line to allow a clear and largely curve less path.Older trains were banned from the new line.Equipped with advanced technologies, the new trains were able to travel as fast as 210 kilometers per hour,a breakthrough in the passenger rail industry and the world's fastest at the time.

他們沿著這條 515 公里的鐵路線(xiàn)建造了3000座橋梁和67條隧道，讓列車(chē)行駛在一條順暢且大部分為筆直的路徑上。 舊的列車(chē)被禁止進(jìn)入新干線(xiàn)。 新型列車(chē)配備了先進(jìn)的技術(shù)，可以達(dá)到每小時(shí)210公里的高速，這在鐵路客運(yùn)行業(yè)是一個(gè)突破，也是當(dāng)時(shí)世界上最快的速度。

The journey time between Tokyo and Osaka was cut from over 6 hours to 4.On October 1, 1964, the new line opened,just in time for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

從東京到大阪的行程時(shí)間從6小時(shí)縮短到4小時(shí)。 1964年10月1日，東海道新干線(xiàn)開(kāi)通，正好趕上東京奧運(yùn)會(huì)。

But neither Sogō' nor Shima were invited for the inauguration.They both resigned in 1963 because the project's budget came in at double what was promised -400 billion yen, the equivalent of 3.6 billion US dollars today.

但十河信二和島秀雄 都沒(méi)有被邀請(qǐng)參加就職典禮。 他們都在1963年辭職了，因?yàn)樵擁?xiàng)目的預(yù)算是預(yù)計(jì)的兩倍——4000億日元，相當(dāng)于今天的36億美元。

and over half of it is in China.

而其中一半以上在中國(guó)。