来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革 第6集 第6集》

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  There's another reason, there's a historical reason.
  还有一个原因 历史原因
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  The price of gasoline.
  汽油的价格
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  Price of gasoline, that's another point.
  汽油的价格 另一个原因
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  I hadn't actually connected the dots.
  但不是我想说的
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  Gasoline there is roughly two or three times what it is here,
  欧洲汽油价格是美国的两至三倍
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  so passenger train for short and middle sized runs
  因此乘坐中短途铁路线
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  makes a lot of sense.
  是有道理的
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  Big historical event, yes?
  有一个大型的历史事件
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  They didn't really have--the interstate highway kind of bloomed.
  他们没有发达的洲际高速公路
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  Say again?
  再说一遍
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  Like they didn't have like a highway system or
  他们没有一个高速公路系统
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  Okay, I think--well some of them did.
  我想有些国家是有的