"In California alone it is estimated that 160,000 construction jobs could be created just to build those two high speed rail corridors."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

As we expected, it's less than one, and of course if we build an engine, we want it to be as high as possible, as close to one as possible.

就像预先期待的一样，效率小于一，当然如果我们建造一台热机，我们希望效率越高越好，尽可能接近一。

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so you can't build really high or the buildings will just sink into the ground.

所以你不能把楼建得很高，否则建筑物会下沉到地里。

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The project will develop 13 corridors between heavily populated areas, but only the ones in California and Florida will be truly high speed because,says Amtrak's Steve Kulm, those states will be the only ones to build tracks exclusively for high speed trains.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15