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Singing in the Rain,The Economist,June 22ed,2013
雨中歌曲，經濟學人，2013年6月22日
News of new aircraft，orders and technology rained from the skies this week at the Paris Air Show，
本周的巴黎航展上，擠滿了制造商和客戶，豈料突降大雨，
where a bumper crowd of producers and customers dodged a real downpour with mingled curses and exhilaration.
眾人又是咒罵又是欣喜地四下躲避，而新機型、新訂單及新技術的消息也有如天降甘霖，連綿不絕。
The biennial event at Le Bourget airfield which opened on June 17th is the aviation world's biggest jamboree，
該展覽于6月17日在巴黎勒布爾熱機場舉辦，每兩年一屆，是航空界最大的盛會。
and every manufacturer and supplier struts its stuff in the hope of attracting more business.
在這里，每家制造商和供應商都盡力展示自己的產品以期獲得更多的業務。
Things are looking bright for the civilian side of aerospace these days，though not for defence，with budget cut in developed countries.
最近，民航事業持續發展，雖然不是作為防御設施，但發達國家還是通過削減預算來發展它。
As emerging economies grow，enthusiasm for air travel is growing even faster.
隨著新興經濟體的增長，航空旅游熱增長越來越快速。
Technological advances have made aircraft cheaper and cleaner to run，so airlines everywhere are keen to replace older planes.
技術進步使飛機運行更廉價、更環保，所以，各國航空公司都想要換掉舊飛機。
According to Boeing's annual forecast，published this month，
據波音公司本月發布的年度預期，
more than 35 000 new aircraft—worth perhaps $4.8 trillion—will be needed over the next 20 years.
在未來20年里，將需要35000多架新飛機，總價值約4.8萬億美元。
Almost 25 000 of them will be single aisle planes，and almost 13000 of them will be used in Asia.
其中有25000架將會是單過道飛機，而其中大約13000架將會被用銷往亞洲。
This is a market that Western manufacturers—two in particular—now dominate.
這對西方制造商來說是一個市場，尤其是這兩個主要的特別項目。
Airbus got off to an early public-relations lead with the maiden flight of it new A350 on June 14th.
空中巴士公司在早期就做了大眾宣傳，對新型A350飛機于6月14日進行首航做了重要報道。
The 314-seater boasts a 25% lower operating cost than its predecessors，
據稱，這一314座飛機的運營成本比之前同樣座位的飛機低25%，
thanks to lightweight composites and a new Rolls-Royce engine.
這要歸功于它的輕型復合材料和新的勞斯萊斯引擎。
By mid-week Airbus had added 59 to its original 613 orders for the aircraft，and more for its older models.
截止到本周三，空客公司在原有的613架飛機訂單上又增加了59架，其中更多的是對舊型飛機的需求。
Even its little-loved double-decker superjumbo, the A380, got a look-in，with its first order since October.Thank you.
即使是無人問津的雙層超大型客機A380,自去年10月以來的首次訂單后也看到了希望。謝謝。
