lesson-8-Seeing-the-back-of-the-car分析和总结分析和总结.pdf

Seeing the back of the car 看看汽车业的未来 In the rich world, people seem to be driving less than they used to 在西方富有世界，人们似乎不像以前那样频繁驾车出行了。 Sep 22nd 2012 | from the print edition 1. “I ’ LL love and protect this car until death 一名 17 岁的失败者，图德说， “我将会爱护 do us part, ”says Toad, a 17-year-old loser 这辆车并且保护它，一直到死亡把我们分开 whose life is briefly transformed by a 为止 ”，他的生活由于 “美国风情画 ”中的一辆 “super fine ”1958 Chevy Impala in 1958 年的超精细雪佛兰羚羊而完全改变了。 “American Graffiti The” . film follows him, 这部电影带着他，他的朋友们和他们的车穿 his friends and their vehicles through a late 越到了二十世纪六十年代加州，一个夏天的 summer night in early 1960s California: 夜晚：快而平衡地穿过那里的主要街道，在 cruising the main drag, racing on the back 破旧的街巷中飙车，在汽车后座位上拥吻， streets and necking in back seats of 这辆车体现的不仅仅是速度，财富和自由， machines which embody not just speed, 还有成年的宣告， 社会地位和性关系的成熟。 prosperity and freedom but also adulthood, status and sex. 2.The movie was set in an age when owning 当时这部电影的制作背景是 拥有辆车的 wheels was a norm deeply desired and 深深渴望和它代表的一种新型的成就。从那 newly achievable. Since then car ownership 时起，汽车保有量是益增长。全世界现在的 has grown apace. There are now more than 汽车数量超过了 10 亿辆， 到 2020 年这个数 1 billion cars in the world, and the number 字大概会翻一翻。相比于以前，现在的汽车 is likely to roughly double by 2020. They 更便宜，速度更快，配置更安全，而且更加 are cheaper, faster, safer and more 舒适。 comfortable than ever before. 3. Cars are integral to modern life. They 汽车已成为现代生活不可或缺的一部分。经 account for 70% of all journeys not made 合组织 包括了大部分发展国家 调查显 on foot in the OECD, which includes most 示，非徒步旅行者中有 70% 的人选择了汽车 developed countries. In the European 出行。在欧盟， 超过 1200 万人在汽车及其他 Union more than 12m people work in 车辆相关的制造和服务行业中工作，占了整 manufacturing and services related to cars 个就业人口的 6% 。美国从事类似行业的人数 and other vehicles, around 6% of the total 达到了