I thought about getting the train, but that would have meant a bus journey as well, and I couldn't be bothered so I decided to take a taxi eventually.
我本想坐火车，但那也意味着要坐公共汽车，这样很麻烦，所以最后决定坐出租车。
I know you are one of the few women taxi drivers in the city now, and you drive for a living.
我知道你是这个城市里为数不多的女出租车司机之一，以开车为生。
Besides driving well, the most important thing a taxi driver needs to know is the streets, and I knew the city well because I had lived in it for a long time.
除了良好的驾驶技术，对出租车司机来说最重要的就是要了解城市的街道。我很了解这座城市，因为我在这里住了很长一段时间。
As the taxi began to move, I watched the lights go off, but my father didn't leave.
当出租车开始开动时，我看着灯灭了，但父亲没有离开。
I asked the taxi driver to wait 2 minutes, not 20!
我让出租车司机等我2分钟，而不是20分钟！
I felt very excited yesterday because the taxi driver came back to return the money in person.
昨天我感到很兴奋，因为出租车司机亲自回来还钱。
My car broke down on the way to the airport, so I rushed there by taxi only to find my flight had been cancelled.
我的车在去机场的路上抛锚了，所以我乘出租车赶到那里，结果发现我的航班取消了。
Shall I order a taxi for Sarah to go to the airport tonight?
我今晚要为莎拉叫辆出租车去机场吗？
I showed him the direction and said he would need a taxi.
我给他指路，说他需要一辆出租车。
But I am not going to have a hooded man or woman teach my children, or push their way into the bank ahead of me, or drive my taxi or bus, and there will never be a law that says I have to.
但我不会让一个穿着帽衫装的男人或女人来教育我的小孩，或者让他们大摇大摆地进入我面前的这座银行，或者让我坐他们开的巴士或出租车。而这些都是没有法律约束的。
I did call a taxi agency to ask if agencies set the prices of taxi licenses.
我确实问了一家出租车机构，它们是否制定出租车拍照的价格。
I think normally each day I take a few moments to sit in my house and sit in the back of the taxi.
我想通常每天我都花一些时间坐在家里或者出租车的后座。
Then there was the Beijing taxi driver I wrote about earlier in this series, whose name card said "John Smith" to make it easier for foreign customers to remember him.
以前我在博客中也写到过一位北京的哥在名片上自称“约翰·史密斯”，好方便外国乘客记忆。
Since taking a taxi instead of a bus would save me 10 minutes, I head straight to the taxi stand.
想要省10分钟，还是不要坐公交车了，坐出租车吧。
I was coming back from the hospital with my son Peter who was sick. I stepped out of a taxi and there were all these cameras, a whole posse of photographers.
我和生病的儿子Peter一起从医院回家，下了出租车后周围都是相机，一大群摄像师。
I like sitting back of the taxi because taking time to just stay and think about life.
我喜欢坐在出租车的后座因为我有时间可以停下来思考人生。
Even so, when I left the house at 4am this morning, it was still so gloomy that my taxi driver slowed the car because visibility was poor.
即便如此，当我今天凌晨4点离开家时，天空仍是如此阴沉，以致我的出租车司机因为能见度低而放慢了车速。
I could talk about it for hours. When traveling to Heathrow airport, when not on the fast and extortionately priced Heathrow Express, I share a taxi.
这点我可以讲上好几个小时，不在希思罗机场，不在又快价格又劲的希思罗快车上，那就是在的士上。
I got into a taxi after we had been married about 18 years and the driver asked me what my sign was.
在我们结婚大概18年的时候，我有一次坐出租车，司机问我说，我的星座是什么。
I know. And the icing on the cake is that I left my wallet in the taxi!
我知道，而且我还把皮夹掉在计程车里，真是雪上加霜！
That day I took a taxi to the beach and stared at the blue sky and the low clouds on the horizon.
那天，我一个人搭出租车去了海岸，眼望着蓝蓝的天空，和地平线处那低低的云彩。
And for some reason, I thought the hospital that I was in a taxi racing toward was gonna be a nice little hospital, about twice the size of this restaurant.
出于某种原因，我想那家我正坐车疾驰而向的那家医院应该是家可爱的小医院，大概有这个餐馆的两倍大。
Later, Wei Ziqi told me that at the rowing complex, after I got in the taxi with Wei Jia, the next cabbie had refused to take him and his wife.
后来，魏子旗告诉了我有关水上公园后的事情：当我和魏佳进了出租车后，随后的那辆车则拒载他们夫妻俩。
I then catch a taxi to the address where the Internet tells me the tourist information centre is sited. There's nothing there.
然后我打的前往游客信息中心，地址是我从网上得来的，那里却什么东西也没有。
Some years back I flagged a taxi in midtown Manhattan, and asked the driver if he was willing to take me to a city in northern New Jersey, where I had a business meeting.
几年前我曾在曼哈顿中城叫过一辆出租车，问司机是否愿意载我去新泽西北部的一座城市，我要去那儿参加一个商务会议。
"Moscow!" I smile proudly. Cue - taxi drivers face drops that I haven't said New York or the Maldives.
莫斯科“，我骄傲地笑道——明显地，那司机因为我没说去纽约或者马尔代夫脸都黑了。”
Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab.
十六年前我在纽约的一辆出租车的后座上接受了这个教训。
Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab.
十六年前我在纽约的一辆出租车的后座上接受了这个教训。
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