他们将花费大约五年的时间来建造这条高速铁路。

It will take them about five years to build the high speed railway.

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准时运行铁路的需求意味着废除地方时间，统一全国各地的时间。

The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished and clocks showed the same time all over the country.

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来往于伦敦和这条线上其他城市间的旅程时间将会缩短；南北铁路线主线之一的线路运营能力不足问题也将避免。

Journey times between London and other cities will fall; a capacity shortfall on one of the main north-south rail routes will be avoided.

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But railroads revolutionized an American sense of time, their ability to travel.

但是铁路改变了美国人的时间观念,他们有能力去旅行

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