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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While many remember dramatic Swiss Alps ski scenes with machine guns setting off avalanches, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" opens on the beaches of Portugal, with James Bond staying at the Hotel Palacio overlooking the Bay of Cascais.

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