You don't need a steering wheel when the street car follows a tract.

既然有轨电车 跟着轨道 么需要个方向盘呢。

Toppled outhouses and trampled vegetable gardens soon gave way to more violent hijinks—like the time a Kansas woman almost died in a car crash after kids rubbed candle wax on streetcar tracks, for example—and these pranks escalated during the Great Depression.

倒塌的外屋和被践踏的菜园很快让位于更暴力的恶作剧——例如，名堪萨斯州妇女在孩子们在有轨电车轨道上擦蜡烛蜡后差点死于车祸——这些恶作剧在大萧条期间升级。

Streetcars were lifted from their tracks and scattered like toys.

有轨电车被从轨道上掀起来，散落地就像玩具样。

You can take a little stroll along the trolley.

你可以沿着电车轨道稍作漫步。

The rails are laid flush with the road surface like tram tracks in the fast lane which is closed to traffic once every half hour for the trains to past through.

铁轨与路面齐平铺设，就像快车道上的电车轨道样，每半小时封闭次，供火车通过。

It's 94 letters and it means the " manager of the depot for the supply of uniforms  to the personnel of the track cleaners union of the tramway company" .

它有94个字母，意思“电车公司轨道清洁工工会人员制服供应站的管理员”。

It was originally the Trolley Dodgers, because in the 1890s pedestrians regularly had to risk life and limb crossing the New York City borough's chaotic trolley tracks.

它 Trolley Dodgers， 因为在 1890 年代， 行人经常不得不冒着生命危险穿越纽约市行政区混乱的电车轨道。

On the corners, heaps of charred timber, chunks of masonry and piles of brick that have been cleared aside from where they fell on the tramlines.

街角处，堆着堆堆烧焦的木头、石块碎片以及被清理到旁的砖块，这些砖块原本散落在电车轨道上。

So that's a superficial debate, but then so is, should I divert the trolley, killing the one person to save the five?

因此，这个表面性的争论，但同样，我否应该转移电车轨道， 牺牲个人来拯救五个人， 这也个表面性的问题。

IN THE EARLY 1900S, TROLLEY TRACKS RAN IN CRAZY PATTERNS THROUGH THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN.

1900 年代期，电车轨道以疯狂的方式穿过布鲁克林的街道。

So a lot of engineering skill went into designing tramways and keeping them very, very level.

因此，设计电车轨道并保持其极为平坦，需要大量的工程技术。

I glanced up to find two vapor trails heading off to the west in perfect parallel, like tram tracks.

我抬头看，发现两条蒸汽轨迹完全平行地向西延伸，就像电车轨道样。