關於鐵路運輸方面Railway Transportation

    More than 20 railway transportation lines totaling some 2,000 kilometers are planned for a dozen Chinese cities, said officials with the Ministry of Construction. 

建設部的官員說計劃在中國的12個城市裏建設20多個鐵路運輸線總計約2000公里。

Railway transportation includes urban express railways, subways, light rails, and trolley cars. 

鐵路運輸包括城市高速鐵路、地鐵、輕軌、有軌電車。
    Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, and Changchun are all planning to build such a network to conquer the traffic jams and serious pollution caused by the rapid increase of the urban population and the number of automobiles in China.

北京、上海、重慶、武漢、長春都計劃建立這樣一個網絡來克服由城市人口快速增長和、機動車數量引起的中國交通擁堵和污染嚴重的。

   The network will have the advantages of cleanliness, security, punctuality, high speed, and large transport capacity, said the officials.

那些官員說該網絡將有清潔、安全、準時、高速、大運輸能力這些優勢。
   Financial and technological factors have hampered the development of such a system over the past three decades, and there are now only about 90 km of underground lines in the country with some 600 subway trains in use. 

在過去的三十年裏金融和技術因素已阻礙開發這樣一個系統，目前大約只有90公里的地下管線卻有600條地鐵正在使用。

   Now, however, Beijing alone is planning to build a railway system composed of 13 main routes and two extensions lines totaling 408 km, and increase the railway transport proportion to 50 percent from the present 15 percent, according to local officials.

然而現在，只有北京正計劃建立一個鐵路系統由13條主要路線和兩條擴展線構成，共計408公里，據當地官員說這使提高鐵路運輸的比例從當前的15% 提高到50%。

    China’s first urban railway line was in Beijing and began test operations in October 1969, and the second, in Tianjin, was open to traffic in December 1984.

中國的第一個城市鐵路線路，1969年10月在北京開始試行運營。第二條是在天津，1984年12月通車。