中国汽车的立足之本
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2006年
Anthony Mason: The buzz in Detroit today wasn't for some sexy new American sports car; it was for a bland 1 Chinese Sedan. This is the Geely CK.
Interpreter: Geely is the only privately 2 operated Chinese auto 3 manufacturer.
Anthony Mason: Geely's founder 4, Shufu Li, whose portrait hangs Mao-like in the company booth, wants a piece of the American market.
Anthony Mason: Do you have a dream of how many cars you can sell here in the United States?
Interpreter: I do have that dream, but it's just a dream now.
Anthony Mason: That dream is to sell 100,000 cars a year here. The son of a Chinese peasant farmer, Li started Geely just a decade ago.
Anthony Mason: So he is a classic entrepreneur.
Wayne Xing (Publisher, China Automotive Review): He is.
Anthony Mason: Wayne Xing is the publisher of the China Automotive Review.
Wayne Xing: He started by just making refrigerator parts and then building refrigerators.
Anthony Mason: Geely's 10, 000 workers earn just $3.50 an hour, and now build 200,000 cars a year.
Anthony Mason: The Geely destined 5 for the US is Spartan 6 with a bare bones interior, no sunroof or heated seats. But if the styling doesn't capture your eye, the price will. Geely is hoping to sell this car here for less than $10,000.
John Harmer (Geely USA): This is just a basic fundamental reliable pragmatic automobile 7.
Anthony Mason: There are more than 100 automakers in China, and some are aiming higher.
Malcolm Bricklin: What we are planning on doing is developing models for the United States market that are going to go up against Audi and BMW and Mercedes.
Anthony Mason: Malcolm Bricklin who brought the Yugo and Subaru to the US is working with China's Chery Company to build low-cost luxury cars for the US market, his target: 250,000 cars by 2008.
Anthony Mason: You think you can sell a quarter of million cars in this country from China?
Malcolm Bricklin: Oh, I think I can sell the cars. My problem is how do I do all of the logistics, bringing them over in the shipping 8 and making sure they are all good when they get here.
Anthony Mason: Higher safety and emission 9 standards will also be obstacles, but the flag dropped in Detroit today. The race is on, and the Chinese are on their way.
Anthony Mason: Anthony Mason, CBS News, Detroit.
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Spartan: spartan conditions or ways of living are simple and without any comfort; 简朴的、节约的或严格的.
pragmatic: dealing 10 with problems in a sensible, practical way instead of strictly 11 following a set of ideas; 实际的，实干的.
logistics: the practical arrangements that are needed in order to make a plan that involves a lot of people and equipment successful; 后勤学, 后勤.
- He eats bland food because of his stomach trouble.他因胃病而吃清淡的食物。
- This soup is too bland for me.这汤我喝起来偏淡。
- Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
- The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
- It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
- The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。
- Their spartan lifestyle prohibits a fridge or a phone.他们不使用冰箱和电话，过着简朴的生活。
- The rooms were spartan and undecorated.房间没有装饰，极为简陋。
- He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
- The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
- We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
- There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
- Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施，降低污染物排放总量。
- Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后，指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。