CNN news:纽约地铁启动造价不菲扩建工程

New York City is in the process of making that subway system even bigger. It's adding a new line as part of the city's first major subway expansion in 50 years. New York transportation officials say once it's done, the new line will help reduce overcrowding and delays. But that's doesn't happen quickly and that doesn't happen cheaply.
纽约市正在使其地铁系统变得更大。在城市50年内第一次的主要地铁扩建添加一条新的线路。纽约交通部门的官员表示一旦竣工,新的线路将帮助减少过度拥挤和列车延误等情况。但这不会很快实现,也不会很便宜的实现。

Ali Velshi looks at what's involved.
阿里•威尔什有相关报道。

Backhoe excavators that can cost $700,000 apiece, manlifts that sell for up to half a million bucks, see that hydraulic drill jumbo? They can go for 800 grand a pop. These are the machines of modern-day civil engineering.
挖掘机售价高达700000美元, 乘用升降机售价一百万美元,看到液压钻机巨型吗?这些家伙需要800000美元。而这些机器用于现代土木工程。

New York City has them working full speed ahead on its new Second Avenue subway line.
纽约市已用这些机器在新的第二大道地铁线路上全速工作。

Subways are expensive. Just to give you a sense of perspective , way back when the first subway in Manhattan was 21 miles, and it cost $35 million. This one, about a mile and a half, for about $4.5 billion. That's more than a billion dollars a stop.
地铁是昂贵的。只给你一种角度来感觉,当时曼哈顿第一个地铁长达21英里,它耗资3500万美元。这一个,大约一英里半,就要花费约为45亿美元。而一个停车站就要花费十多亿美元。

And that's just for phase one. We went digging 10 stories below Manhattan to find out what goes into the bottom line on a new subway line.
那只是第一阶段。我们向下挖掘曼哈顿10层楼来寻找新的地铁线路的底线是什么。

It's a bargain. a bargain, $800,000 a pop.
这是一个交易。一次交易,800000美元一台。

The most massive piece of equipment used is the tunnel boring machine. The last time New York built a subway it used the cut-and-cover method, digging from street level. Boring is much more efficient and it disrupts life above ground a lot less.
最大规模使用的设备是隧道钻孔机。上一次纽约建造地铁时使用了切割和掩盖的方法, 从街道上层面开始挖掘。钻孔机很有效，但它或多或少扰乱了地面上的生活。

The one that did this is 22 foot in diameter ,a little over two stories tall. It can go on average about 50 foot a day.
这样做的一个直径是22英尺，略高于两层楼。它可以平均每天达到约50英尺。

One of these things costs $12 million and requires 20 people to operate it. At 50 feet a day, boring two mile-and -a-half tunnels takes a long time.
这些东西其中之一的费用是1200万美元,需要20人去操作它。一天50英尺，挖掘2.5英里的隧道需要很长时间。

But this is a linear project.Right.
但这是一个线性工程。是这样的。

You must do the tunnels before you do this.
在做这之前你必须先搞隧道。

And highly specialized laborers are the ones doing that. Sandhogs or urban miners work alongside operating engineers who drive and maintain the machinery.
高度专业化的劳动者就是这样做的。随着操作人员驱动和维护机器，隧道工人或城市矿工一起工作。

On average, we pay a guy about $1,000 a day, and that's base salary plus benefits .
平均而言,我们每天支付一名工人1000美元,这是基本工资和福利。

It's putting people to work in a tough economy. The Metropolitan Transit Authority expects phase one of the subway-- that's 31/2 stops and a tunnel and a fourth stop -- to create 130,000 jobs with an economic impact of almost $18 billion over the nine years of construction.
这是让人们在经济艰难时期工作。大都会运输管理局预计地铁的第一阶段——那就是31/2个停车站，一条隧道及一个第四停车站——超过9年的建设几乎180亿美元的经济影响可以创造130000个就业岗位。

New Yorkers keep asking why this takes so long.
纽约人不断地询问为什么要花这么长时间。

It is normal.It is what It is normal. It is what it takes.
这是很正常的。这是很正常的。就是需要这么长时间。

All the while, Americans are footing the bill, no matter where they live.
同时, 无论他们住在哪里，美国人都要为自己买单。

Second Avenue, right now, $1.3 billion come from the federal government and the rest of $3.15 billion comes from New York.
第二大道,现在,13亿美元来自联邦政府,剩下的31.5亿美元来自纽约。

And in 2016, when we swipe our card and ride their first train, it's going to feel real good.
在2016年,当我们划卡并搭乘第一趟列车时,就会感到真正的好。

All right. It's time to have a little fun. Several weeks ago, we asked you to send us iReports of any questions you had for me. We had a great response to this. The full interview is up and ready to watch at cnnstudentnews.com. You'll find it in the "Spotlight" section. If you want to know who comes up with all the puns,go there. If you want to see a sample of what this is all about, watch here.
好吧。是时候有点乐趣了。几周前,我们要求你寄给我们的iReports您对我们的任何问题。我们对此有大动作。完整的访谈即将启动并准备在 cnnstudentnews.com播放。你可以在“焦点”栏目发现它。如果你想知道谁想出所有的双关语,去那里便可以。如果你想看到一个这一切是怎么 回事的例子,那请看这里。