而在美国,这一比例仅为3.6%,底特律的三大汽车巨头只在轻型卡车上才安装柴油发动机,比如"道奇大公羊"型皮卡。
Detroit's Big Three manufacturers use diesel engines only in light trucks, such as the big Dodge Ram pickup.
当他十六岁在底特律的工作间做事时,制造和安装发动机就成了他的工作。
Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.
年轻的亨利没有留在农场,承传父业,而是离家去了底特律,成为了一名发动机修理工。
Instead of working on the family farm, young Henry went off to Detroit and became an engine-repairer.
1879隼,他在底特律得到一份机械师的工作。此时蒸汽发动机已成为继钟表后亨利的又一痴迷物。
In 1879 he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit By this time steam engines had joined clocks and watches as objects of Henry's fascination.
尽管亨利很快就学会了新工作中的各种技能。使得他不出四年他便成为底特律电厂的总工程师,然而他对燃油发动机的兴趣在其生活中占据着主要地位。
Although Henry quickly learned the ropes of his new job so quickly that within four years he was chief engineer at the Detroit power plant - his interest in fuel engines had come to dominate his life.
尽管亨利很快就学会了新工作中的各种技能。使得他不出四年他便成为底特律电厂的总工程师,然而他对燃油发动机的兴趣在其生活中占据着主要地位。
Although Henry quickly learned the ropes of his new job so quickly that within four years he was chief engineer at the Detroit power plant - his interest in fuel engines had come to dominate his life.
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