Europe's largest high-speed rail operator has predicted that domestic air travel in the UK will lose millions of passengers to a 250mph train service if an ultra-fast network becomes a reality.

欧洲最大的高铁运营商预测，如果超高速铁路网络能够建成，其列车时速可高达250英里，那么英国国内的航空业将失去数百万的乘客。

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During pilot tests in Singapore, forecasts made across 500 urban locations accurately predicted traffic volume 85 to 93 percent of the time and vehicle speed 87 to 95 percent of the time.

在新加坡进行的初步试验中，在500个城市地区进行的预测，准确预测当时百分之85至93的交通量，以及87到百分之95的车速。

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This week the IMF predicted that global GDP should expand by 4.8% this year—slower than in the boom before the financial crisis, but well above the world’s underlying speed limit of around 4%.

国际货币基金组织本周称，预计今年全球GDP将会增长4.8%--低于金融危机前繁荣期的增长率，但远高于世界的大约4%的增速极限。

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Only the 318 in question, however, are close enough to the Milky Way for the predicted galactic speed limit not to have been imposed (300m light years may sound a long way, but it is a short hop on the cosmic scale).

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Delbonis was predicted to be a speed bump.

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And according to people familiar with High Speed Two, its economics are rather flaccid: every pound invested in high-speed rail is predicted to generate only around two pounds' worth of benefit (measured in time savings, the extra journeys that will be facilitated, reduced congestion on roads and so on).

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