The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.

大得吓人的高楼和阴暗狭窄的街道组成了今日现代化的城市。街道上充斥着汽油味和有毒气体，出租汽、卡、公共汽的噪音刺耳难忍，络绎不绝的人群挤来挤去。

It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories.

人们早已知道在客户翻阅电簿时，名叫 AAAA 的出租汽公司要比Zodiac出租汽公司有很大的优越性。

The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.

这辆“出租汽”是一架小型瑞士飞机，叫“皮勒特斯.波特“号。

Would you like me to get you a cab ?

要我替你叫辆出租汽吗？

He finished off his drink and called a cab.

他喝完了酒，叫了一辆出租汽。

When I was a boy, my grandfather told me how a German taxi driver, Franz Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.

当我是个孩子的时候，我祖父给我讲了一位德国出租汽司机弗朗兹·巴斯曼如何找到了据信已在20年前死去的兄弟的事。

It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories.

人们早已知道在客户翻阅电簿时，名叫 AAAA 的出租汽公司要比 Zodiac 出租汽公司有很大的优越性。

With a price of about 16 dollars an hour, these electric cars will be cheaper to drive than the smallest gas-powered the rental cars.

每小时16美元的价格，这些电动汽将比最小的燃气驱动出租汽更便宜。

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.

本·弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽，并开始了一项的业务。

At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.

出租汽在一五八号街一大排白色蛋糕似的公寓中的一幢前面停下。

'I'll telephone for a taxi to take you home, and while you're waiting you and Jordan better go in the kitchen and have them get you some supper—if you want any.'

“我去打个电叫一辆出租汽送你回家。你等的时候，你和乔丹最好到厨房去，让他们给你们做点晚饭——要是你们想吃的。”

Horse-drawn buses, trams, cabs and carriages were used to convey people to and around the city centre.

马，有轨电，出租汽和客常用于城市中心周边的乘客运输。

I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler's voice calling a taxi.

我两手抱着头坐了几分钟，直到我听见屋子里有人打电，又听见男管家的声音在叫出租汽。

'What kind are they? ' asked Mrs. Wilson eagerly as he came to the taxi-window.

" 它们是什么种？" 威尔逊太太等老头走到出租汽窗口就急着问道。

Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby's drive and immediately I jumped out of bed and began to dress—I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late.

天快亮的时候我听见一辆出租汽开上盖茨比的汽道，我马上跳下床开始穿衣服——我觉得我有要跟他说，有事要警告他，等到早晨就太迟了。

As I tiptoed from the porch I heard my taxi feeling its way along the dark road toward the house.

当我踮着脚尖走下阳台时，我听见我的出租汽慢慢地沿着黑暗的道路向房子开过来。

As my taxi groaned away I saw Gatsby walking toward me across his lawn.

当出租汽哼哼着开走的时候，我看到盖茨比穿过他的草坪朝着我走过来。

Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.

在楼上，在那阴沉沉的、有回音的道里，她放过了四辆出租汽，然后才选中了一辆，身是淡紫色的，里面坐垫是灰色的，我们坐着这辆子驶出庞大的站，开进灿烂的阳光里。

And the famous girl was standing on a chair in the living room waving the Golden Ticket madly at arm's length as though she were flagging a taxi.

这位出了名的小姐正站在客厅里的一把椅子上，举起手臂拼命地挥动那张金奖券，好像在挥手叫出租汽似的。

I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train.

我神魂颠倒，跟他上了一辆出租汽，还以为是上了地铁哩。