Life is a never-ending public car, when you buy a ticket on the train, it's hard to say what you will meet the companion.

生活是一辆永无终点的公共车，当你买票上车后，很难说你会遇见什么样的旅伴。

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I stopped at my hotel foyer and enquired about a train ticket to Dunhuang in Gansu province — the next stop on my itinerary — as I knew tickets could sometimes be hard to obtain.

我在宾馆的休息厅歇了一下脚，打听了一下去甘肃省敦煌的火车票的事——这是我旅行路线的下一站——因为我知道有时车票很难买。

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A family of four Glis dormice were found in the ticket machine on the platform of a little train station in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire after complaints it had stopped working.

英国白金汉郡艾尔斯·伯里的一个小火车站屡屡接到投诉电话称火车售票机无法正常运行，检测后才发现是四只小睡鼠把这台机器当成了自己的家。

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That means, they say, that I bought my ticket on the train - and that is not allowed.

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The next problem is buying a ticket before I get on the train.

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Until recently, when you cancelled a ticket booked on Amtrak before the train left, the company would simply refund the money to your credit card.

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