外刊经贸知识选读 课 带中文翻译 (3) .pdf

旺旺英语 Lesson 3 Beijing Rising (Excerpts) China’s emergence as an economic heavyweight after more than a decade of fast growth makes it likely to supplant Japan as the West’s main trade worry in Asia By Frank Gibney Jr. 经过十多年的快速发展，中国作为举足轻重的经济强国的出现，使得中国有可能取代 日本，而成为西方在亚洲的主要贸易对手。 If there is a road to China’s future, Highway 204 out of Shanghai is it. Along its two dusty lanes, local trucks and buses jockey with Cadillacs driven by financiers from Taiwan and Hong Kong investors. Migrant workers crowd the narrow shoulders. Factories line the highway, producing sneakers, toys, plastics, clothes, aircraft components and medical equipment. Eventually industry gives way to ricefields, which is being dug up to build still more factories. Cranes turn overhead as dump trucks and cement mixers nose onto the road. Outside the town of Jiading, one tractor-trailer leaves Asia’s largest container plant every three minutes, carrying goods bound for the Shanghai docks. The traffic on Highway 204 is so thick that the trip from Shanghai to Zhangjiagang – only 115 kilometers away – takes five hours. 如果有一条通向中国未来的路，那就是穿越上海的 204 国道。沿着这条国道的两条 尘土飞扬的车道，穿梭来往着当地的卡车和公交车，以及台湾与香港投资者中的金融家所 驾使的卡迪拉克轿车。流动的工人拥挤在国道的狭窄边缘。沿线林立着许多工厂，生产旅 游鞋，玩具，塑料制品，服装，飞机零件和医疗设务。最后，工业让位于稻田，而稻田正 被挖掉以建造更多的工厂。吊车在头顶转动，翻斗车和水泥搅拌机缓慢地前行。在嘉定城 外 ，每 3 分钟就有一辆牵引车离开亚洲最大的集装箱厂，把货物运往上海码头。204 国道 上的交通是如此繁忙 ，以至于从上海到张家港的旅程 ，仅仅 115 公里 ，却需要 5 个小 时。 Zhangjiagang is a commercial hub of Jiangsu, the fastest-growing province in China. China has the most dynamic economic in the world today. Its boom radiates from Guangdong, its richest province, but it has spread as far west as Xinjiang, where foreign investors are searching for oil and other natural resources