PTE精聽(tīng)-私家車(chē)的影響

　　Today we'll examine the role that private transportation, namely, the automobile plays in city planning.

　　今天我們將調(diào)查私人交通工具，換句話說(shuō)，汽車(chē)在城市規(guī)劃中所扮演的角色

　　A number of sociologists blame the automobile for the decline of the downtown areas of major cities.

　　許多社會(huì)學(xué)家把主要城市的市中心的衰退歸咎于汽車(chē)。

　　In the 1950's and 1960's the automobile made it possible to work in the city and yet live in the suburbs many miles away.

　　在五十年代和六十年代，汽車(chē)使在城里工作，但卻生活在許多英里之外的郊區(qū)成為可能。

　　Shopping patterns changed: instead of patronizing downtown stores, people in the suburbs went to large shopping malls outside the city and closer to home.

　　購(gòu)物模式改變了：生活在郊區(qū)的人們?nèi)コ峭馇译x家近的大型購(gòu)物中心，而不是屈尊鬧市商店。

　　Merchants in the city failed; and their stores closed. Downtown shopping areas became deserted.

　　城里的商人失敗了;并且他們的上店關(guān)門(mén)了。市中心購(gòu)物區(qū)變得荒蕪了。

　　In recent years there's been a rebirth of the downtown areas, as many suburbanites have moved back to the city.

　　近年來(lái)中心區(qū)有了新生，因?yàn)樵S多郊區(qū)居民搬回了城里。

　　They've done this, of course, to avoid highways clogged with commuters from the suburbs.

　　他們這么做，當(dāng)然了，是為了避免來(lái)自郊區(qū)通勤者們阻塞公路。

　　I've chosen this particular city planning problem—our dependence on private transportation to discuss in groups.

　　我選擇了這個(gè)特殊的城市規(guī)劃問(wèn)題——我們對(duì)私人交通工具的依賴(lài)，來(lái)做小組討論。

　　I'm hoping you all will come up with some innovative solutions.

　　我希望你們都將提出一些創(chuàng)新性的解決方案。

　　Oh, and don't approach the problem from a purely sociological perspective; try to take into account environmental and economic issues as well.

　　哦，不要從一個(gè)純粹的社會(huì)學(xué)視角來(lái)著手處理這個(gè)問(wèn)題;也試試考慮環(huán)境和經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題。