考研英語(yǔ)時(shí)文賞讀（145）：中國(guó)最古老的機(jī)場(chǎng)正式停航

　　China's oldest airport ceases public operations

　　中國(guó)最古老的機(jī)場(chǎng)停止民航運(yùn)營(yíng)

　　At around 11 pm on Wednesday, as the last flight took off from Beijing Nanyuan Airport, the 109-year-old airport officially retired from serving civil aircraft.

　　周三晚上11點(diǎn)左右，當(dāng)最后一架飛機(jī)從北京南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)起飛后，這座擁有109年歷史的機(jī)場(chǎng)正式停止了民航運(yùn)營(yíng)。

　　All its civil aviation operations will move to Beijing Daxing International Airport, which opened to traffic on the same day.

　　南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)所有民航運(yùn)營(yíng)將轉(zhuǎn)移至于同一日啟動(dòng)運(yùn)營(yíng)的北京大興國(guó)際機(jī)場(chǎng)。

　　As the country's first airport, it was built in 1910 and mainly used for military, serving as a training center for air and ground troops.

　　作為中國(guó)最早的機(jī)場(chǎng)，南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)始建于1910年，當(dāng)時(shí)主要用于軍事用途，作為空軍和地面部隊(duì)的訓(xùn)練中心使用。

　　At the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the Nanyuan airport supported a nearby aviation school that had sprung up in 1913, training more than 100 pilots who later became the backbone of China's civil aviation industry. It started serving as both a civilian and military airfield since 1984.

　　清朝（1644-1911）末年，位于南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)附近的一所建立于1913年的航校使用這座機(jī)場(chǎng)訓(xùn)練出了百余名飛行員，這些人后來(lái)成為了中國(guó)民航業(yè)的中堅(jiān)力量。自1984年起，南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)便成為了軍民兩用機(jī)場(chǎng)。

　　With its small terminal expanded in 2012, Nanyuan airport became a supplement to Beijing Capital International Airport, to help ease air traffic pressure on its counterpart to the north. In 2018, Nanyuan airport processed 6.51 million passengers in total.

　　2012年，隨著其規(guī)模較小的航站樓進(jìn)行了擴(kuò)建，南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)成為了北京首都國(guó)際機(jī)場(chǎng)的補(bǔ)充，緩解了北部的空中交通壓力。2018年，南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)旅客吞吐量達(dá)651萬(wàn)人次。

　　To deliver a seamless connection between the two airports, China United Airlines, which was using Nanyuan airport as its main hub, carried out several operating simulations before.

　　為了實(shí)現(xiàn)兩個(gè)機(jī)場(chǎng)間的無(wú)縫對(duì)接，曾以南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)作為主運(yùn)營(yíng)基地的中國(guó)聯(lián)合航空公司進(jìn)行了多次模擬運(yùn)營(yíng)。

　　On Wednesday, a total of 75 flights took off and landed at the airport — 38 inbound and 37 outbound, accommodating around 11,500 passengers.

　　周三，南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)共有75架航班起飛降落（其中38架入境，37架出境），累計(jì)服務(wù)旅客約11500名。

　　On Tuesday, one day before its closing, people went to the airport to snap pictures or to even take a short flight and keep the plane ticket as a souvenir. The airport will likely be converted into an aviation museum.

　　周二，在停止運(yùn)營(yíng)前一天，人們來(lái)到這座機(jī)場(chǎng)拍照，更有甚者乘坐短程航班以保存機(jī)票作為紀(jì)念。南苑機(jī)場(chǎng)未來(lái)很可能會(huì)變成一座航空博物館。

　　(全文共254個(gè)詞)

　　重難點(diǎn)詞匯：

　　backbone  n. 脊骨，脊柱；支柱；骨氣，毅力；書(shū)脊

　　terminal  n. 航空站；終點(diǎn)站；末端；晚期病人 adj. 晚期的；末端的；終點(diǎn)的

　　counterpart  n. 副本；配對(duì)物；極相似的人或物

　　seamless  adj. 無(wú)縫的；無(wú)縫合線(xiàn)的；無(wú)傷痕的