“L” stands for elevated. The train tracks run several meters above Chicago's streets.

这个“L”代表是高架铁路。这个铁路系统在地面以几米地方运行。

They then pushed it along rails to a new location away from the elevated road.

之后他们用轨道把音乐厅平移到远离高架道路新地点。

Through the windows of a passing El train.

透过一辆经过高架列车车窗？

They were on an overpass spanning a main avenue.

他们正身处一座横跨一条主要大道高架桥。

The newest of the city subway lines, it was unveiled less than a decade ago, but it was closed for more than a year and a half over structural faults on an elevated stretch of the line.

这是该市最新地铁线路，推出不到10年，但它曾因高架线路结构缺陷关闭了一年半多时间。

This was the precursor to the hugely popular High Line that now occupies a disused elevated freight railway in Manhattan, which first opened in 2009 and Thomas Heatherwick's unrealised Garden Bridge in London, proposed in 2013.

这是曼哈顿广受欢迎高线公园以及托马斯·瑟维克在 2013 年提议但尚未实现伦敦花园桥前身，高线公园于 2009 年首次开放，原来是曼哈顿一条废弃高架货运铁路。

The bus ride home is another dizzying hymn to civil engineering, looping around an elevated interchange in the clouds. It's just another ordinary day in this thrilling, bewildering megalopolis.

回家公交车是另一首令人眩晕土木工程赞歌，在云层中高架立交桥盘旋。在这座令人兴奋又困惑大都市中，这只是又一个平子。

Washington's Transportation Department tweeted last week that a wildlife camera captured a video of a coyote running over Interstate 90 on the new structure.

华盛顿交通部周发推文称，野生动物摄像头捕捉到一只郊狼在90号州际公路方新落成高架桥跑过视频。

He said more than 14,000 people were now sheltering at the concrete underpass in Del Rio, Texas after making the crossing from Mexico.

他表示，超过 14000 名移民穿过墨西哥来到德克萨斯州后，他们正露宿在德尔里奥高架桥下混凝土通道里。

Across 100 kilometers, the Park Railway, also known as the Italian Transiberian, travels through valleys and tunnels and over old bridges called viaducts.

公园铁路（又称意大利横贯铁路）全长100公里，穿过山谷和隧道，穿过被称为高架桥旧桥。

It's a major urban area crossed by many, very, very ugly elevated highways that soar over these very densely inhabited areas.

这一主要城区被多条极为丑陋高架路穿过，而高加路耸立在这些人口非常稠密地区之。

We walked past hippopotamus footprints and stepped on to an elevated room that used to be the classroom for form two.

我们穿过河马脚印，走进一间曾经是二年级教室高架教室。

Instruments of defense were concentrated in the chemin de ronde, a protected, elevated walkway high up behind the battlements.

防御工具集中在chemin de ronde里，这是城垛后面一条受保护高架走道。

Concrete pillars for highway bridges that previously only had steel rods inside are now enclosed in steel.

高架桥水泥柱先前只是在内部有钢筋，如今外面也包了钢板。

Finally she turned towards the windows of the passing El train.

最后她转向有高架火车经过窗子。

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has said he is shocked by images showing Haitian refugees gathered in an underpass in Texas after crossing the US border.

联合国难民事务高级专员菲利波·格兰迪表示，他对地难民越过美国边境后露宿在德克萨斯州高架桥下照片感到震惊。

She said she saw the killing through the windows of the moving El train.

她说她是隔着那列正在驶过高架列车车窗看到凶案发生。

Here's the El tracks, the bedroom, living room. Here's the hall. Here's the stairs.

这是高架列车轨道，这是卧室，这是起居室，这是门厅，这是楼梯。

And their kitchen has an elevated stove equipped with a chimney.

他们厨房有一个带烟囱高架炉灶。

I see now that they ride on tracks and are powered by overhead electric lines.

Jean：我现在看到它们是沿着轨道行驶，并由高架电线供电。