交通运输学专业英语Lesson-9剖析.ppt

交通运输专业英语 Lesson 9 The Environment and Automotive Technology 1.However, the car in the modem sense began to take off only with the lightweight, fast-running internal combustion engines developed by Daimler and Maybach in Canstatt and by Benz in Pfortheim, Germany. 然而，现代意义上的汽车只是在德国的戴姆勒，迈巴赫以及Benz发明了轻质、快速运转的内燃机的发明后才开始产生。 2.Daimler and Maybach‘s first motorized vehicle was a kind of motorcycle, but soon the accumulated expertise of the coachbuilding tradition and the recently developed bicycle industry was used to fit such engines into a chassis, creating the ancestors of the modem motor car. 戴姆勒和迈巴赫的第一辆机动车是一种摩托车，但传统马车制造积累的经验和最新自行车工业的发展被用来将这种发动机安装在底盘上，产生了现代汽车的祖先。 9.Henry Fords intended market for the Model T was different. With his country origins he aimed his product at the farming communities of rural America, often isolated and yet with the means to pay for his relatively cheap cars. intended 打算之中的, 预期的; 计划之内的; 有意的, 故意的; 未婚的; 未来的 produce intended result 产生预期的结果 an intended insult 蓄意的侮辱 ones intended wife 未婚妻 Henry Ford T型车的目标市场与众不同。由于他出身乡村，他将其产品定位于美国农村的农民社区，他们远离城市但有能力购买相对便宜的汽车。 10.Although car ownership levels still tend to be higher in the rural areas of the industrialized world, the car has become very much a feature of towns and cities, and it is in this setting that most of its problems are created. 尽管汽车所有者的水平在工业化世界的农村地区仍较高，但汽车已变成城镇和城市里的常见事物，在这种情况下产生了大多数问题。 11.This led on the one hand to a lowering of the threshold of automobile ownership and on the other hand allowed owners to use their cars as a trade-in, effectively a down payment on the Purchase of a new cap thus boosting new car demand. Such developments would have a similar effect in post-war Europe. 一方面这降低了汽车所有者的进入的门槛，另一方面允许所有者用他们的汽车作折价，有效减少了新车购买时的负担，继而推动对新车的需求。这一发展对战后的欧洲具有同样的效果。 12.It is not until the l950s and l960s, however, that we can really begin to speak of mass motorization, even in the USA, where the trend started earlier. 然而直到20世纪50年代和60年代，我们真正地可以说汽车的大众化，即使是在开始趋势更早些的美国也是如此。