合乘公交？听起来好像不错哦 「公交网约车」来了！

据报道，北京公交集团近期将推出“网上预约、合乘出行”的“准门对门”公交出行服务。

所谓“合乘公交（bus pooling/bus sharing)”，就是定制公交的升级版，乘客可按需设置自己的临时出行需求，与小汽车合乘类似，凑够一定的人数即可成行。

“准门对门(quasi door-to-door)”则是乘客可以根据自己的需求设置，不再局限公交设置的固定路线。

The Chinese capital Beijing is hoping to put an end to the frustrations of disgruntled bus passengers complaining about long waiting times, by introducing "public bus-pooling" to the city.

disgruntled作形容词，高级版的angry，表示“〔尤因事情未如所愿发生而〕恼火的，不高兴的，失望的，不满的”，英文解释为“annoyed or disappointed, especially because things have not happened in the way that you wanted”，

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Disgruntled employees recently called for his resignation. 

不满的雇员们最近要求他辞职。

文中用的是public bus-pooling，也可以说bus sharing，关于pooling一词，经常用来表示类似意思，比如“拼车”我们就可以用car pooling表示。

pool可以作动词表示“集中（资金、知识和设备，供大家分享）”，比如“集思广益”我们就可以说pool the wisdom of the masses。

According to the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, the local public transport authority is setting up a "quasi door-to-door" bus service, that will enable passengers to go online and detail what their individual needs are for a bus journey.

detail作动词表示“详细说明，详述”，英文解释为“o list things or give all the facts or information about something”

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The report details the progress we have made over the last year.

报告详述了去年我们取得的进展。

“准门对门”公交出行服务   a "quasi door-to-door" bus service

It says that it will focus on serving large, residential communities, with the aim of providing bus routes more catered to where there are large groups of people, rather than serving existing stops and making people sit through a pre-defined route.

表示“满足...需要；迎合”，英文解释为“To cater to a group of people means to provide all the things that they need or want.”

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We cater to most clients.

我们满足大多数客户的需求。

表示“坐到...结束”，英文解释为“If you sit through something such as a movie, lecture, or meeting, you stay until it is finished although you are not enjoying it.”

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The movie is so bad that you can hardly bear to sit through it.   

这电影非常差劲，你很难能够忍着一直坐到看完。

It is also hoping to make the service safe by helping passengers find others to travel with, should they be concerned about making journeys alone.

should此处是用来表示虚拟语气。

当虚拟条件句的谓语动词含有were，should，had时，if可以省略，这时从句要用倒装语序，即把were，should，had等词置于句首，多用于书面语。如：

Were she here，she would agree with us.
如果她在这儿的话，她会同意我们的。

Had he learnt about computers，we would have hired him to work here.
如果他懂一些电脑知识的话，我们已经聘用他来这里工作了。

所以文中的句子可以还原成“If they should be concerned about making journeys alone, it is also hoping to make the service safe by helping passengers find others to travel with.“

Beijing Youth Daily says: "in future, the public will expect buses to arrive like a car, and that they will meet the personalised needs of passengers".

Ensures safety, helps prevent congestion

The paper estimates that some 8.5m people travel by bus in the city per month.

But bus journeys in the city can be frustrating, given that Beijing is the second most congested city in the country. Despite bus lanes, traffic jams are common, and the new scheme could go some way towards alleviating snarls.

表示“交通拥挤的；车辆阻塞的”，英文解释为“A congested road or area is extremely crowded and blocked with traffic or people.”

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He promised to clear the city's congested roads. 

他承诺要清理城市拥塞的道路。

前几天《变形金刚》男主恐怖作息刷爆网络：凌晨2点半起 晚7点半睡 一文的推送中也提到过一个表示“拥挤的”词，你还记得吗?

snarl /snɑːl,snɑrl/ 在英式英语中作名词时可以表示“复杂的或混乱的情形”，英文解释为“a complicated or confused state or situation”，所以此处文中用来表示“交通堵塞”。

Media reports have not specified when the scheme will start, but it could offer an immediate solution to passengers who are unable to use taxi-hailing services following a nationwide crackdown.

打车/叫车服务：the taxi-hailing / ride-hailing services

滴滴公司：Didi Chuxing, the country's largest ride-hailing firm/the biggest ride-sharing firm

来源: BBC

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