About twelve hours. We currently have tickets available only for first class on the express train. If you’d like, you can choose a sleeper on the overnight train which is a bit less expensive.

大概12小时，目前只有特快列车的1等车厢票。如果你愿意，可以买的卧票，票稍微便宜些。

While I slept in my sleeper car, all my possessions were stolen.

我在火车卧睡觉时东西全被偷走了。

Excuse me, can I get a ticket for a sleeping compartment on this train?

不好意思，请问能给我一这趟火车的卧票吗？

They're kind of like a modern-day version of the Pullman sleeping cars on old trains.

它们有点像现代版的老式火车的卧车厢。

Yes, sir. I'll need your car and berth numbers.

好的，先生，请给我你的车名和卧号码。

Air New Zealand just revealed its new bunk bed design for economy passengers on airplanes.

新西兰航空公布经济舱全新卧设计。

The entire length of my journey from Los Angeles to New York is about four days long, and for the first leg of my journey, there weren't any sleeper cars available.

我从洛杉矶纽约的整个旅程大约有四天，我的第一段旅程没有卧车厢。

It was an overnight train, with sleeping cars.

这是一列通宵的火车，有卧车厢。

What's the longest sleeper you have taken?

你做过的最长的卧车是什么？

If you are lucky enough to get a sleeper, you spend half the night staring at the small blue light in the ceiling, or fumbling to find your ticket for inspection.

即使你走运弄一个卧，夜间有一半时间你会盯着车顶那盏小蓝灯而睡不着觉；要不然就为查票摸索你的车票。

By the 1930s, it ran more than 2,000 sleeper cars across Europe, including the legendary Orient Express, a rolling palace which cut the journey from Paris to Istanbul from a matter of months to three days.

世纪三年代，该企业已在欧洲运营两千余节卧车厢，其中就包括传奇的东方快车，这座移动宫殿将巴黎伊斯坦布尔数月的行程缩短至三天。

'Cisco was reached at seven in the morning; and an hour later the dormitory was transformed into an ordinary car, and the travellers could observe the picturesque beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming.

午七点钟火车开过了西斯科。一小时之后，车的卧又变成了普通的坐椅。旅客们可以透过玻璃窗尽情阅览这山区的美景。

There he moved into an eight-by twenty-foot chicken coop that he converted into a little house by raising it onto cinderblocks and building a sleeping loft inside.

在那里，他找来一个 88 英尺宽、20 英尺长的鸡笼，将它放置在一堆煤渣砖，又在笼子里搭了个卧，就这样把它改造成了一处小房子，之后他就住了进去。

That's correct. As you see, I've made reservations for you on the night train to New York on the fifth. You’ll have two sleeping berths.

对。你们看，我为你们预订了5号夜里的火车票去纽约。你们有两个卧。

The European empires augmented these linkages; advertisements in one London paper recommended holidays in Sudan, with travel by “express steamers and sleepcar trains-de-luxe”.

伦敦的一家报纸刊登广告，推荐乘坐“特快汽船、特快豪华卧列车”前往苏丹旅行。

The wheels underneath whipped up a fountain of sparks, and the sleepers in their berths turned and grumbled at being disturbed.

下面的轮胎产生了大量火花，卧乘客因被打扰而埋怨起来。

Questions 2. M: Excuse me, can I get a ticket for a sleeping compartment on this train?

问题2。 男：打扰一下，我能买一这趟列车的卧票吗？

Pullman cars were luxurious passenger, sleeper, and dining cabins that made passenger rail travel possible across the world.

普尔曼车厢是豪华的客运、卧和餐车，使得客运铁路旅行在全球成为可能。

Sleepers couldn't keep pace in the economic race and were largely discontinued.

卧列车在市场竞争中逐渐落伍，大批线路随之停运。

When do I have to be at Heathrow? - I've booked you on the sleeper, Minister.

我的飞机什么时候走？- 我给您订了火车卧。