英譯中8

　　The popular view when discussing urban transportation in American cities today is to decry its sorry state. Newspaper and journals are filled with talk of "urban transportation crisis," of the "difficulties of getting from here to there, " and so on at great length. Matters are reported to get worse and very quickly.

　　Everyone has his own favorite traumatic experience to report: of the occasion when many of the switches froze on New York's commuter railroads; of the sneak snowstorm in Boston that converted thirty-minute commuter trips into seven hour ordeals; of the extreme difficulties in Chicago and other Midwestern cities when some particularly heavy and successive snowstorms were endured.

　　One reason for the talk of an urban transportation crisis in the United States today perhaps lies in a failure to meet anticipations. Many commuters expected to reduce their commuting times as systems improved, but instead found themselves barely able to maintain the status quo in terms of time requirements./ Another reason for talk of crisis, almost certainly, is the rate of improvement in the performance of urban transportation systems during rush hours has been markedly inferior to that expected during off-peak hours. Specifically, the ability to move quickly about American cities during non-rush hours has improved in a truly phenomenal fashion.

　　中譯英8

　　光陰似箭，轉眼中國加入世貿組織已經(jīng)整整4年。4年來，中國加入世貿絕大多數(shù)承諾都已兌現(xiàn)，部分承諾的兌現(xiàn)甚至走在規(guī)定的時間表之內。在世貿成員關心的知識產(chǎn)權問題上，中國啟動法律修改工程，查處大批侵權案件，這些努力均取得了顯著成效。中國政府還全面清理了部委和地方的行政法規(guī)。

　　一諾千金，有諾必踐，傳送著中國的極大誠意，展示了一個負責任大國的襟懷，贏得世貿成員和國際輿論的佳評。在世貿組織的年度審議中，這幾年中國都受到充分肯定。為使國內經(jīng)濟與世貿規(guī)則相符，中國表現(xiàn)了承擔義務的強烈意愿，并且一如既往從未動搖。