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China Holiday Travel Puts Spotlight On TransportationLunar New Year means tens of millions of travelers in China, mostly by bus but increasingly by car, which is bad news for air quality. David Biello reports.
中国假日旅行让交通出行成为焦点
农历新年 意味着千万人次的出行，主要是靠巴士而且是日益增长的私家车，是造成雾霾的根源。戴维 报道。。。
Feb 2, 2014|By David Biello
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It’s Lunar New Year, the “year of the horse.” Of course, horse is not how millions of Chinese are currently traveling, as they return home from the growing cities where they are trying to better their lives.
在农历马年新年，当然，马不是中国人当前旅行的主要工具，他们从一些更好的能给他们更好的生活的城市回家。
Within the last five years, China has built a network of high-speed rail that covers most of the main routes between cities. But that’s not how most Chinese people are getting home, it’s too expensive. Cheaper, slower, dirtier trains are more popular, but don’t go everywhere people want to be.
在最近5年时间，中国修了高铁联系主要铁路通道的城市，但是这不是大多数的中国人回家的交通工具，这太贵啊。便宜的，慢的，脏的车更加受欢迎，但是没办法去很多地方。。。
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虽然有点酸，但是反映出普铁建设的太少。。。
No, buses carry the bulk of the travelers back home and will return them to the cities when the holiday season ends. But buses are not the only vehicle plying the ever more crowded roads. With increased wealth has come a growing love affair with the car. China is now home to 120 million private cars, up from just 15 million at the turn of the century.
不，巴士运输了大部分旅客。但是巴士不仅仅是在拥堵的路上的交通工具。财富的增长带来了对汽车的热爱，现在的私家车数量达到了1.2亿辆，从2000 年的 1500万辆上升。。。
That’s bad news for air quality. As one city environmental official told me when I recently visited, no matter how much he curbs pollution from industry, smog continues to suffocate because of more and more cars.
这是对于空气质量来说是个坏消息。一个城市环保局的官员告诉我，无论如何淘汰落后产能，关闭大量的污染工厂，雾霾继续出现，并且愈演愈烈，就是因为在路上很多车。。。
Should China eventually approach the number of cars per capita in the U.S., they’d see more than a billion vehicles on their roads. The smog may stop them from seeing much else.
中国应该最终达到美国的人均车辆数目吗？这意味着有10亿辆车在路上。雾霾将会让他们什么都看不到。
—David Biello
[The above text is a transcript of this podcast]
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