Many of the cars broke down on the course and some drivers spent more time under their cars than in them! A few cars, however, completed the race.

很多汽车在途中就抛了锚，而有些驾驶员花在汽车底下的时间比坐在汽车里面的时间还长。然而还是有几辆汽车跑完了全程。

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For the first time since 2000, Americans bought more cars than trucks and suvs-passenger cars accounted for 50.8% of total U.S. sales in 2008, vs. 46.3% in 2007.

自2000年以来，美国人购买的轿车数量首次超过卡车和乘用型SUV，其中轿车2008年市场占有量为50.8%，而2007年这一数字为46.3%。

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Around the world, there are more than one billion cars, and in the United States alone, over 250 million of those cars sit idle 93 percent of the time in driveways and parking lots.

全世界已有超过10亿的汽车，而单单在美国，就有超过2.5亿辆车有93%的时间都在车道和停车场上闲置。

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Actually, the automobile insurance is more important than the homeowners' insurance, even though homes are so much more valuable, because--I think that's because cars move and they drive around and they bump into each other.

实际上,尽管住宅要比汽车值钱的多,但是,汽车保险要远比,住宅保险重要,我觉得这是因为汽车是可以移动的,车主们开着车到处跑,容易相互碰撞

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