LESSON 23

UNIT 12 The London bus LESSON 23 The new buses in London are just ‘buses’. They aren't ‘London buses’. The real ‘London bus’was the old Routemaster. This was our favourite bus for fifty-one years. It was a design classic. Were Routemasters really dangerous? The back of the bus was an open platform with no doors. Perhaps this wasn't very safe -but Londoners like to do their own thing. And the Routemasters were fast in the traffic. Modern buses are safe, but they are slow. Passengers hate the doors. Car drivers hate the buses. The bus drivers have a hard time.

伦敦的新公共汽车只是“公共汽车”而已，它们不是“伦敦公共汽车”。真正的“伦敦公共汽车”是老式的“马路大师”。51年来，它一直是我们最喜欢的公共汽车，是经典的设计。 “马路大师”真的危险吗?车的后部是没有门的开放平台，也许这样并不安全--但伦敦人喜欢做自己的事。而且“马路大师”在车流中行驶很快。 现在的公共汽车是安全，但很慢。乘客不喜欢车门，小汽车司机们不喜欢公共汽车，公共汽车司机们日子很难过。

The first Routemasters were on our roads in 1954. The last official Routemaster journey was on Route Number 9, on 15th February2006. That was some years ago. Today, Londoners remember the Routemaster's name. They remember the designer's name: Douglas Scott. The new buses don't have a name. How can we love them?

第一批“马路大师”在1954年上路，而最后一班官方“马路大师”是在2006年2月15日，行车路线是9号线。那已经是几年前的事了。 如今，伦敦人还记得“马路大师”这个名字，还记得它的设计者的名字:道格拉斯·斯科特。 新式公共汽车没有名字，我们怎么去喜欢它们呢?

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