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| ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... | wherestip United States Local time: 12:37 Chinese to English + ... Cantonese Pronunciation | Dec 4, 2016 |
Thanks, Yueyin.
That's a great piece of reference material you provided. | | | ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... | wherestip United States Local time: 12:37 Chinese to English + ...
Yueyin,
I haven't heard anything about this. The discussions must not have been too "serious".
Anyway, a subway system for Austin seems like overkill to me. What works well for a big metropolitan area doesn't necessarily work well for a place like Austin that has a less concentrated downtown but has more of a sprawled out urban development. | |
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ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ...
wherestip wrote:
Anyway, a subway system for Austin seems like overkill to me. What works well for a big metropolitan area doesn't necessarily work well for a place like Austin that has a less concentrated downtown but has more of a sprawled out urban development.
Steve,
I think you are right. Another obstacle is its big cost.
http://kut.org/post/why-cant-austin-have-elaborate-subway-system | | | wherestip United States Local time: 12:37 Chinese to English + ... Austin's Public Transportation | Dec 5, 2016 |
Yueyin,
Definitely. Not only is it cost-prohibitive, you have to wonder how much benefit the majority of Austin's population could really get out of an expensive subway system like this built in and around downtown Austin.
BTW, here's a couple of opposing views on how successful the once much-ballyhooed Capital MetroRail really was ...
| | | ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... Traffic jams in Austin | Dec 5, 2016 |
wherestip wrote:
Yueyin,
Definitely. Not only is it cost-prohibitive, you have to wonder how much benefit the majority of Austin's population could really get out of an expensive subway system like this built in and around downtown Austin.
BTW, here's a couple of opposing views on how successful the once much-ballyhooed Capital MetroRail really was ...
Steve,
Probably, they put the Capital MetroRail system in wrong places at a wrong time. With traffic jams during rush hours in Austin like this, they must find a solution to the problem sooner or later.
| | | ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ...
It seems to me that some of the travelers enjoy being caught in a traffic jam in Beijing:
[Edited at 2016-12-05 18:52 GMT] | |
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ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... | wherestip United States Local time: 12:37 Chinese to English + ... Pearl Harbor Remembered | Dec 7, 2016 |
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/pearl-harbor
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The causes of the attack on Pearl Harbor stemmed from intensifying Japanese-American rivalry in the Pacific. Japan’s imperial ambitions had been evident from as early as 1931, when she invaded Manchuria. The conquered region’s bountiful resources were then used to supply Japan’s war machine. Leaving the League of Nations in 1933, Japan pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at creating the ‘Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere’, a euphemism for a Japanese empire modelled on European ones of the 19th century.
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The following day, the US declared war against Japan, where a shared sense of outrage and hatred had united the country’s bitterly divided media and public behind Roosevelt. On 11 December 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, thus bringing America into World War II.
Pearl Harbor appeared to be a huge success for Japan. It was followed by rapid Japanese conquests in Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, Malaya and New Guinea. Yet in the long term, the attack was strategically catastrophic. The ‘sleeping giant’ had been awoken, and in America, a sense of fury now accompanied the mobilisation for war of the world’s most powerful economy. The losses at Pearl Habor would soon be more than made good, and used to take a terrible vengeance on Japan.
| | | ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... | ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite | Dec 7, 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Robert L. Hite, blindfolded by his captors, is led from a Japanese transport plane after he and the other seven flyers were flown from Shanghai to Tokyo. Hite was co-pilot of crew 16 (B-25B s/n 40-2268 Bat out of Hell, 34th Bomb Squadron) of the "Doolittle Raiders". After about 45 days in Japan, all eight were taken back to China by ship and imprisoned in Shanghai. On 15 October 1942 three were executed, one died in captivity. The four others, including Hite, were liberated on 20 August 1945.
Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite was born in Odell, Texas on March 3, 1920. He died on March 29, 2015 in Nashville at the age of 95. | |
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QHE United States Local time: 13:37 English to Chinese + ... TOPIC STARTER | QHE United States Local time: 13:37 English to Chinese + ... TOPIC STARTER | ysun United States Local time: 12:37 English to Chinese + ... Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole | Dec 11, 2016 |
上面提到的 Lt. Robert L. Hite (曾被日军判以死刑)于2015年3月29日去世后,Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole 就成了唯一活着的 Doolittle’s Raider。
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