Now even the tramway, once a solution to moving people quicker needed an upgrade.

现在就连曾经用于更快运送游客缆车也需要升级了。

Several years ago, the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador opened a new aerial tramway.

几年前，厄瓜多尔瓜亚基尔市开通了一条新空中缆车。

A television news program called El Dorce recently dispatched a correspondent to check out the tramway.

一个名为《埃尔多尔》视新闻节目最近派了一名记者去检查这个空中缆车系统。

But the topography was tricky, and it was problematic for either a tramway or a canal.

然而，地形复杂，无论是修建有轨车线路还是运河都面临难题。

Aerial tramways, chair lifts, ski lifts.

空中缆车、缆车、滑雪缆车。

Tramways offered a solution  to the growing transportation needs of cities in the late 1800s replacing slower horsedrawn  carriages.

有轨车为19世纪末城市日益增长交通需求提供了一种解决方案，取了速度较慢马车。

The tramway was pitched as a way to reduce emissions because people would ride the gondolas instead of driving.

有轨车被宣传为一种减少排放方式，因为人们会乘坐缆车而不是开车。

These companies also operate the tramway, so they get the money from passenger fares.

这些公司还运营有轨车，所以他们可以从乘客票价中获得收入。

But to make a tramway run with a poor old horse, you've got to keep it very, very level.

要让一匹年迈体弱马拉动轨车，你必须持轨极其、极其平坦。

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

因此，设计车轨持其极为平坦，需要大量工程技术。

And so the first locomotives were built at Ironworks, which had tramways.

于是，第一台蒸汽机车在拥有轨铁工厂里被制造出来。

France loaned the city of Guayaquil money for the aerial tramway as part of this $100 billion pledge.

法国向瓜亚基尔市提供了资金用于建设空中缆车系统，这是其1000亿美元承诺一部分。

And in hundreds of collieries and tramways and ironworks, there were tramways, that is, systems with rails for horse-drawn wagons.

在数百个煤矿、有轨车线路和钢铁厂中，都设有有轨车系统， 即铺设轨供马车行驶运输体系。

At the Galleries-Lafayette, the man leaped from the omnibus and took the La Muette tramway, following the boulevard Haussmann and the avenue Victor Hugo.

在 Galleries-Lafayette， 这名男子从公共汽车上跳下， 乘坐 La Muette 车， 沿着奥斯曼大和维克多雨果大行驶。

The arch's solution operates more like a vertical tramway, with visitors entering one of eight horizontal compartments which proceed up one leg of the arch along curved tracks.

拱门解决方案更像是垂直缆车，游客可以进入八个水平分隔厢中一个，沿着弧形轨沿着拱门一条腿向上走。

So for that aerial tramway in Ecuador, planning documents showed that the interest rate for the loan was expected to be nearly 6 percent.

因此， 对于厄瓜多尔那条空中缆车项目，规划文件显示贷款利率预计接近6%。

To accommodate the crowds, the Beckleys installed a tramway in 2003 so park-goers could ride straight to the summit and forego the bumpy bus ride of its backside.

为了容纳游客，贝克利家族在2003年安装了一条缆车线路，这样游客可以直接乘坐缆车到达山顶，而无需再忍受后面那段颠簸巴士旅程。

Fun fact: this is the world's largest rotating tramway.

有趣是，这是全球最大旋转缆车。

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，意思是“车公司轨清洁工工会人员制服供应站管理员”。

The tramway takes you on a two-mile journey, hauling you up to 8,600 feet on Mount  San Jacinto - perfect for those who like their thrills with a side of vertigo.

缆车带你踏上两英里旅程，将你拉至圣哈辛托山顶8600英尺高度——对于那些喜欢在刺激中掺杂一丝眩晕感人来说， 这再完美不过了。