时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

They don't make him like they used to in China and perhaps that is a good thing. Lu Wenyou collects these old Chinese classics called Red Flags. Production ran from 1958 to 1971.


 


"The quality was in line with the rest of the world," he says, "Some functions used the most advanced technology.”


 


It was quality over quantity. In 21 years just over thousand were ever made.


 


“This is the Five Flag, Red Flag." he said, "It was built by hand."


 


This ultra long limo was made for Chairman Mao, but he died before it was finished.


 


These cars were built for a different time when only elite 1 leaders had the privilege of riding in a convertible 2 like this one, where they could stand in the back and waved to the adoring 3 masses as they sped by.


 


These days the masses have hit the road. Last month the Chinese bought more than a million new cars, many are first time buyers like this farmer from Inner Mongolia spending 7000 us dollars cash for an old Chinese made minivan.


 


"We saved for two or three years," he says," We built a house, bought appliances, then decided 4 to buy a car." He is heading out to some of the most dangerous roads in the world where on average 200 people died in accidents each day.


 


Terrifying for new drivers like Lu Chao. "At the beginning I didn't dare go out by myself," she says, "because there are so many other cars on the road."


 


Even though she passed her driver's test last year, this is only the second time that Lu has been on the open road and so it's all a little bit nerve-racking and Lu seems uneasy 5 as well. So she's hired a driving coach to guide her.


 


It's all a change from a land of bicycles a generation ago. From Mao to now, China has for the moment become the world's biggest car market and that comes with the biggest number of new inexperienced drivers as well.


 


John Vause, CNN Beijing.


 



1 elite
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
2 convertible
adj.可改变的,可交换,同意义的;n.有活动摺篷的汽车
  • The convertible sofa means that the apartment can sleep four.有了这张折叠沙发,公寓里可以睡下4个人。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了。
3 adoring
a.崇拜的,敬慕的
  • He would stand and gaze up at her with adoring eyes. 它会站在那里,用崇拜的眼光抬头望着芬。
  • She was always made much of by her adoring friends. 她的朋友总是那麽崇拜她。
4 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 uneasy
adj.心神不安的,担心的,令人不安的
  • He feels uneasy today.他今天心里感到不安。
  • She had an uneasy feeling that they were still following her.她有一种他们仍在跟踪她的不安感觉。
学英语单词
absorben
almond crescent
along in years
arc-stream voltage
assembly level
automatic steering device
black butter
bowl pack
braeriaches
broad-band antenna
carrier frequency amplifier
catastro-fuck
chilean natural potassium nitrate
cipher
clenoliximab
concentrating zone thin layer plate
contorsion
cypripedium calceoluss
dementia polysclerotica
Diploclisia
dot matrix size
dough plasticity
excess product
execution pripeline
extractum polygoni hydropiperis fluidum
extraperiosteally
extuberance
fayalite peridotite
fixed-arch bridge
fuckless
full-rich position
gap filling strategy
gear shaping machine
genemotor
give thanks
given the shaft
go hit the spot
gothicized
graving
handelsgesellschafts
homogeneous bounded domain
Japan Air Society
Krestsy
kryptol furnace
leaved
lens equation
long diagonal of indentation
longwall undercutter
machine wrench
maidservants
marry into money
mixture colours
molecular amplitude
money-man
monitoring device
montigny
mopstick handrail
moral wear
name-days
Navahoes
newkirlite
notice of suspend payment
OSAT
paedologist
paracholesterin
pcr products
platinum (pt)
plot elements
prangers
pulse regenerator
punchers
r-plasmid
ray cell
reactive potency
retch
Rhinophis
ribbon structure
river branching
rocker side dump car
shriveling up
sleeps out
smoke vapour meter
social exclusion
solar equation
soughingly
stone-carvers
stoop vault
sulcus for radial nerve
svat
taken out a patent for
temporized
to blast something
topic for discussion
torpe
trailing characteristics
trupentine camphor
Vasoconstrictine
vodeness
weak light source
weather controlled message
Wendlandia luzoniensis
X-ray tube voltage