时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


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 When I was a kid, I used to love the sound of the train in the distance. The tracks were about a mile away from my home. The sound of the locomotive 1 and the whistle blowing in the night was somehow relaxing.


 
Hanoi train 3
 
On the other hand, I don't think I would feel as romantic about the sound of trains, if I lived in the neighborhood in the video below. In the video, you can see a train passing mere 2 centimeters from people's front doors. The train line is located in the heart of Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi. It passes through an area called the Old Quarter heading toward Long Bien Bridge.
 
The train comes rumbling 3 through this old neighborhood twice a day: once at 4pm and once at 7pm. Even without a watch you know the train is coming when you see people putting away their things and going indoors. It is surprising that there aren't more accidents. Luckily, for the locals it passes through only twice a day.
 
Old Quarter Hanoi
 
The Old Quarter that the train passes through has a nearly 1,000-year-old history and is one of the top tourist attractions in the city. There, visitors can find many buildings hardly changed from the 15th century and shops specializing in traditional goods.

1 locomotive
adj.运动的,机动
  • The wheels were set further back on the original locomotive.车轮安装得比原来机车的更靠后些。
  • A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive.一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。
2 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
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AH-Chew
anode voltage stabilized camera tube
antiterrorism
AOC-E
ass-dough
auxiliary board
Backus-Naur formalism
Beja, Dist.de
cal(l)iper logging
canalicular abscess
chiliagons
closing condition
coast-road
cooperation between judicial organs and masses
countervailing duty waiver
cut to a point
d'nealian
discharge of a jury
door straightener
draw-out metal-clad switchgear
droseraceous
drughead
duskies
epithermal activity
estimation of population variance
factor reflection
family Geastraceae
fibrised
fishing port
fluorocarbon resin
Frierfjord
FSTV
Gardner bubble viscometer
grippo
hassett
height of the center of gravity above the base line
humantrockenplasma
hydrogen voltameter
Information Expressway
kaz
Kiddi
labour aristocracy
laevulinic acid
lasts-in-first-out
law presumption
leaf crinkle
leewards
lift a hand
literary grace
logic, glue
looksees
lug pattern
luney
measurement of hole
multiresistant
mystery
necrotic pulp
non incorporated public enterprise
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patronisation
pease meal
pegasi
platinum tetrachloride
poetics
polyenylphosphatidylcholine
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quarter-hour persons
radio director indicator
radiotelegraph operating position
reclarification
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Rumex gmelinii
schwalb
self-starvation
seoc
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simmeringly
skaophagy
soul-destroying
sound control egr system
Stewiacke
Swiss mountain pine
teachers' nodule
technical feasibility
tolling
treelength
tungas
Ultra Extended Graphics Array
UPS
value of the growingstock of a single wood
weft hammer
wrong overturn
Wādi'ah
xylographing