The world's longest tunnel will take shape deep beneath the Swiss Alps on Friday when a giant drilling machine clears a path for a key high speed railway through the heart of Europe.

在巨大的钻孔机清理出一条小道后，横贯瑞士阿尔卑斯山下方世界上最长的隧道终于成形。这条隧道将建设成为穿过欧洲心脏地带的高速铁路通道的关键路段。

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The machine lies 100 metres below the countryside, straddling the Franco-Swiss border outside Geneva. This is where CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory, has its headquarters.

机器置于100米深的地下，跨越法国-瑞士边境止于日内瓦（欧洲粒子物理研究所的总部所在地）。

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The collider is a giant accelerator machine housed in a 27km-long (17 miles) circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border.

这台对撞机是一套坐落于法国-瑞士边境地区地下一条27公里(17英里)长环形隧道的巨型加速设备。

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In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.

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