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President Trump wants to privatise air-traffic control
特朗普總統(tǒng)意欲將空中交通控制私有化
In June 1956 a TWA Constellation collided with a United Air Lines DC-7 over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people on both aircraft.
1956年6月，環(huán)球航空的星座機(jī)型（TWA）在亞利桑那州大峽谷與美國(guó)聯(lián)合航空DC-7機(jī)相撞，兩機(jī)128名人員全部罹難。
At the time it was the worst ever airline disaster.
這是當(dāng)時(shí)史上最嚴(yán)重的一次空難。
Struggling with outdated technology and a post-war boom in air travel, overworked air-traffic controllers failed to spot that the planes were on a collision course.
由于過(guò)時(shí)的技術(shù)和戰(zhàn)后航空旅行的繁榮發(fā)展，過(guò)度勞累的空中交通管制人員未能及時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)飛機(jī)處在碰撞航向。
That crash led to the creation of a new body, which became the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in charge of running and modernising the world's biggest air-transport system.
那次事故導(dǎo)致了一個(gè)新的機(jī)構(gòu)誕生并成為聯(lián)邦航空管理局（FAA），負(fù)責(zé)運(yùn)營(yíng)和現(xiàn)代化世界最大的航空運(yùn)輸系統(tǒng)。
With that system again struggling to keep pace with demand, Donald Trump thinks it is time to privatise America's air-traffic control service.
隨著這個(gè)系統(tǒng)再次難以跟上需求增長(zhǎng)的速度，唐納德·特朗普認(rèn)為，是時(shí)候?qū)⒚绹?guó)的空中交通管制服務(wù)私有化了。
This week the president outlined a plan to turn air-traffic control into a separate non-profit entity financed by user fees, instead of the present patchwork of taxes and grants.
本周總統(tǒng)提出一項(xiàng)計(jì)劃，將空中交通控制轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)楠?dú)立的非盈利實(shí)體并由用戶費(fèi)資助，取代當(dāng)前的稅收和補(bǔ)助金的共同資助。
Shorn of its air-traffic responsibility, the FAA would become a safety body.
沒(méi)有了其空中交通的責(zé)任，美國(guó)聯(lián)邦航空局將成為一個(gè)安全機(jī)構(gòu)。
America's air-traffic system is vast, consisting of 14,000 controllers working in 476 airport-control towers that handle take-offs and landings, as well as in 21 “en route” centres looking after flights along the nation's airways.
美國(guó)的空中交通系統(tǒng)是龐大的，由在476個(gè)機(jī)場(chǎng)控制塔工作的14000個(gè)管制人員處理飛機(jī)起降工作，以及在21“途中”中心照顧沿著國(guó)家航道的航空公司的航班。
It has a good safety record, but elderly technology limits the number of flights that can be handled.
而且它有一個(gè)良好的安全記錄，但過(guò)時(shí)的技術(shù)限制了可管理的航班數(shù)量。
This leads to delays and frustrated flyers.
這就導(dǎo)致了飛機(jī)延誤和飛機(jī)乘客受挫。
With passenger numbers set to grow from 800m a year to almost 1bn by 2026, the problem will only get worse.
隨著旅客人數(shù)將從每年8億到2026增長(zhǎng)到近10億，這個(gè)問(wèn)題只會(huì)變得更糟。
Mr Trump believes that, no longer mired in a federal bureaucracy, the air-traffic service will become more efficient and better able to invest in technology.
特朗普認(rèn)為，如果不再陷入聯(lián)邦官僚機(jī)構(gòu)，空中交通服務(wù)將變得更有效率，并能更好地投資于技術(shù)。
譯文來(lái)源考研英語(yǔ)時(shí)事閱讀
