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With its sprawling sometimes tangled array of parts suppliers assembly plants logistics networks and dealers the auto industry is perhaps uniquely vulnerable to disasters natural and otherwise.
汽车业是由无数零件供应商、装配工厂、物流网络以及经销商组成的一个庞大的、有时甚至是混乱的行业.在面临自然灾害或其它灾难时这个行业可能显得尤为脆弱.
Manufacturers are all too familiar with interruptions to production from floods blizzards land slides and forest fires. Dealers have seen their new car inventories wiped out by overflowing rivers surging tides and punishing hail storms.
汽车厂商都深知洪水、暴雪、泥石流、森林大火等灾害会给汽车生产带来哪些影响.许多经销商都有过汽车存货被洪水和怒潮吞没或是被冰雹损坏的经历.
Catastrophes happen even at sea. A Norwegian carrier with 2862 cars aboard sank in the English Channel in 2002 after colliding with a container ship in thick fog.
海上也可能发生灾害.2002年一艘载有2862辆汽车的挪威货船途经英吉利海峡时在浓雾中与一艘货柜船相撞继而沉没.
But there has been nothing like the triple threat in Japan wrought by last week's earthquake and tidal wave combined with growing worries of a nuclear reactor meltdown.
不过与地震后的日本相比这些都微不足道了.上周的日本地震、地震引发的`海啸再加上人们对震区核反应堆熔毁的恐慌日益加深为日本汽车业带来了三重威胁.
As the world's third-largest producer of automobiles (after China and the .) Japan's manufacturing network is highly developed and unusually complex. The natural constraints of Japan's crowded highways and seaports combined with man-made complications like just-in-time parts delivery have led to the creation a finely-tuned delicately-balanced system.
作为全球第三大汽车生产国(仅次于中国和美国)日本的汽车生产网络高度发达而且格外复杂.日本的高速公路和海港非常拥挤这是日本的 “先天不足”.此外日本汽车业中还有许多人为的复杂因素例如许多日本厂商都在零部件运输上采取了“零库存”的即时交付制度.这些因素使得日本汽车业成为了一个极为精细、高度平衡的体系.
Running smoothly it is highly productive. But a single disruption anywhere along the line can tie up the whole system. Assembling a car requires some 10000 individual pieces and every single one of them is needed in the finished product.
如果正常运转的话这是个极为高效的系统.不过倘若系统中的某根链条出现了断裂就会影响到整个系统的运转.装配一辆汽车需要差不多10000个单独的零件一个都不能少.
The automobile has a long history. The French engineer Nicolas Joseph Cugnot built the first self-propelled vehicle (Paris 1789) a heavy three-wheeled steam-driven carriage with a boiler that projected in front; its speed was mph (5 kph). In 1801 the British engineer Richard Trevithick also built a three-wheeled steam-driven car; the engine drove the rear wheels. Development of the automobile was retarded for decades by over-regulation: speed was limited to 4 mph ( kph) and until 1896 a person was required to walk in front of a self-propelled vehicle carrying a red flag by day and a red lantern by night. The Stanley brothers of Massachusetts the most well-known American manufacturers of steam-driven autos produced their Stanley Steamers from 1897 until after World War I.
The development of the automobile was accelerated by the introduction of the internal-combustion engine. Probably the first vehicle of this type was the three-wheeled car built in 1885 by the engineer Karl Benz in Germany. Another German engineer Gottlieb Daimler built an improved internal-combustion engine . The Panhard car introduced in France by the Daimler company in 1894 had many features of the modern car. In the United States internal-combustion cars of the horseless buggy type were manufactured in the 1890s by Charles Duryea and J. Frank Duryea Elwood Haynes Henry Ford Ransom E. Olds and Alexander Winton. Many of the early engines had only one cylinder with a chain-and-sprocket drive on wooden carriage wheels. The cars generally were open accommodated two passengers and were steered by a lever.
The free growth of the automobile industry in the early 20th cent. was threatened by the American inventor George Selden's patent issued in 1895. Several early manufacturers licensed by Selden formed an association in 1903 and took over the patent in 1907. Henry Ford the leader of a group of independent manufacturers who refused to acknowledge the patent was engaged in litigation with Selden and the association from 1903 until 1911 when the . Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the patent although valid covered only the two-cycle engine; most cars including Ford's used a four-cycle engine. The mass production of automobiles that followed and the later creation of highways linking cities to suburbs and region to region transformed American landscape and society.
汽车有着悠久的历史。法国工程师Nicolas Joseph Cugnot建造第一个自行车(巴黎,1789),一个重,三轮驱动,蒸汽锅炉,预计在车厢前部;速度3英里(5公里)。在1801英国工程师理查·特里维西克也建立了一三轮,蒸汽驱动的汽车;发动机驱动后轮。汽车的发展是落后几十年的过度监管:速度限制在4英里每小时(公里/小时),直到1896人被要求走在自行车的前面,扛着一面红旗日夜红灯笼。斯坦利兄弟马萨诸塞州,蒸汽驱动的汽车最知名的美国制造商,从1897直到第一次世界大战后产生的斯坦利轮船
汽车的发展是由内燃机的引入加速。也许这种类型的第一辆车是由工程师卡尔奔驰在德国建造的三轮车在1885。另一位德国工程师戈特利布戴姆勒,建立改进的内燃机。安车,介绍了在法国的戴姆勒公司1894,有现代汽车的许多特征。在美国,不用马拉的马车型内燃机车的是Charles Duryea和J. Frank Duryea,Elwood Haynes,Henry Ford,制造,兰塞姆·奥兹和亚历山大·温顿。许多早期的发动机只有一个汽缸,链条和链轮驱动在木制的车轮上.。汽车通常是开放的,容纳两名乘客,并由杠杆操纵。
第二十年初汽车工业的自由增长。被美国发明家乔治·塞尔登的专利威胁,于1895发行。由塞尔登授权的几家早期制造商在1903成立了一个协会,并于1907接管了该项专利.。亨利福特,一组独立的制造商谁拒绝承认专利的领导者,正同塞尔登和协会从1903到1911的诉讼,在美国上诉法院裁定,专利,虽然有效,只包含了两冲程;大多数汽车,包括福特,使用一四个周期发动机。随之而来的是大规模生产汽车,后来的公路将城市连接到郊区和地区,从而改变了美国的景观和社会.。
A kind of little car may someday take the place of today's big ones. If people drive such cars in the future there will be less pollution in the air.
There will be more space for parking in cities. The streets will be less crowded. And driving will be safer as these little cars can go only 65 km per hour.
The future cars will be fine for getting round a city but they will not be useful for long trips.
Little cars will go 200km before needing to stop for more gas. If big cars are still used along with the small ones two sets of roads will be needed in the future. roads will be used for the big fast cars and other roads will be needed for the slow and small ones.
It's said that three such little cars fit in the space now needed for one car the usual size.有一种小汽车也许有一天能取代今天的大轿车。如果人们将来驾驶这样的汽车,空气中的污染就会减少.。
城市将有更多的停车空间。街道将不那么拥挤。和驾驶将更安全,因为这些小型车只能走65公里每小时。
未来的汽车可以在城市周围行驶,但对于长途旅行来说不会有什么用.。
小汽车将走200公里,之前需要加油。如果大型汽车仍与小汽车一起使用,未来将需要两套道路.。道路将被用于大型快速汽车和其他道路将需要缓慢和小。
据说现在有三辆这样的小汽车适合在一辆车里使用,这就是通常的尺寸.。