But sometimes I can't seethe station's name on the sign at the platform because the train is too crowded.

但有时因为车上人太多，我看不清楚站台站牌上车站的名字。

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Rev. Awdry was happy to make up stories about the little train, but told his son that it first needed to have a name —so they called him "Thomas the Tank Engine."

瑞福•奥德瑞当时很喜欢给儿子讲述关于这个小火车头的故事。 但他们首先需给这个火车头起个名字，于是他们便把这个火车头叫做“托马斯蒸汽火车。”

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The telephone directory gave me the name of the one person capable of passing on the information. He lived in a suburb of Fenton, less than half an hour away by train.

电话号码簿给了我一个人的名字，惟有他才能替我把情报传出去：他住在芬顿郊区，不到半小时的火车路程。

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Anyone can receive a blessing from the temple elephant, Lakshmi. (After you give her a 100-rupee note, she whacks you gratefully on the head.) But train passengers have a special advantage: You go back at night to Hampi's central Vittala Temple complex, a compound of intricately sculpted halls with rows of pillars and the central stone chariot that gives the train its name.

FORBES: Photograph: Andre Fanthome (RAAS)

For me it was a brief train stop on the main line between Glasgow and London or a name on a signpost as you passed it on the A74 dual carriageway south towards the border.

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