交通运输与物流专业英语(Unite 8)中英文.docxVIP

Unit Eight Transportation Service Text A Transportation in logistics An industrialized society without an efficient transportation system seems a contradiction in terms. As consumers, we often take for granted that products will move from where they are produced to where they are consumed with a minimum of difficulty-in terms of both time and cost. The transportation sector of most industrialized economies is so pervasive that we often fail to comprehend the magnitude of its impact on our way of life. 工业化社会没有一个高效的交通运输系统似乎是一种矛盾的说法。作为顾客，常常自然而然地认为只需要花费极少的时间和成本就能将产品从其生产地运到消费地，无处不在的工业化经济运输行业常常使人们忽略了交通运输对于我们生活的重要性。 The unique position which transportation occupies in economic activity arises from the reduction of the resistance of time and space to the production of economic goods and services. The significance of this in terms of the allocation of economic resources is indicated by the fact that probably at least one third of wealth of a nation is directly devoted to transportation. Transportation is so important that without it organized human activity would be impossible. Complete stoppage of transport services of a community is the quickest way to assure complete paralysis of cooperative effort: economic, political and social. 由于经济商品和服务在配送时间和地理位置上（遇到的）阻碍减少，交通运输在经济活动中的独特地位逐渐显现出来，事实证明，一个国家创造的财富至少有三分之一直接源于交通运输，因此交通对于经济资源分配的重要性不言而喻。没有交通运输，想要完成有组织的人类活动几乎是不可能的，只要完全切断社区的交通运输服务，就能以最快的速度使人们在合作领域完全处于瘫痪。 Logistics involves the movement of products (raw materials, components, finished goods) from point-of-production (origin) to point-of-consumption (destination). A product produced at one point has very little value to the prospective customer unless it is moved to the point where it will be consumed. Transportation achieves this movement. 物流包括了货物（原材料、零配件、产成品）从原料产地（起点）到消费地（终点）的移动过程，在产品运输到消费地之前，它对于目标客户而言几乎没有价值，而正是交通运输实现了产品的移动（增加了产品的价值）。 Movement across space or distance creates value of place utility. Time utility is mostly created or added by the warehousing and storage of produc