CNN News:世界上最長的鐵路-公路隧道

The Chunnel, the Channel Tunnel, the Euro Tunnel is actually three tunnels. Two are for trains, one is for service and security. It stretches more than 31 miles under the English Channel. And when it was built in the 1980s and `90s, it went way over budget, costing billions of euros. A proposed tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany wouldn`t be as long, but it could be the longest that included both a road and a rail line.

英吉利海峽隧道是由三條隧道組成，其中兩條是火車營運，另外一條是用于服務(wù)和運營安全。它橫跨英吉利海峽，長約31英里。在二十世紀八九十年代建造的時候，該海峽的建造超出預(yù)算，花費了數(shù)百億歐元。人們提議建立一個連接丹麥和德國的隧道，該隧道可能沒有英吉利海峽隧道那么長，但是會成為涵蓋公路線和鐵路線最長的隧道。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A new underwater tunnel could help travelers going from Copenhagen, Denmark to Hamburg, Germany cut their travel time by about two hours.

男：這條新的海底隧道會讓游客們從哥本哈根、丹麥到漢堡、德國的時間縮短約兩個小時。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s the idea behind a proposed 11 mile tunnel called Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link. Builders say it would be the world`s longest combination road and rail tunnel.

男：建造這個長約11英里的隧道，支持它的思想叫做費馬恩帶固定橋。建造者稱這將會成為世界上最長的鐵路-公路隧道。

According to its Web site, the tunnel would cut crossing time across The Baltic Sea from a 45 minute ferry ride to only seven to 10 minutes in a car or a train.

根據(jù)其網(wǎng)站的報道，原來穿越波羅地海需要45分鐘，而現(xiàn)在通過該隧道，乘坐汽車或火車僅需要7至10分鐘。

Here`s how they plan to build it.

下面是他們的修建計劃。

Concrete sections of the tunnel will be built on land then floated out to sea. A trench will be dug on the ocean floor about 100 feet down. The concrete sections will be dropped into the trench, followed by other sections, until the tunnel is complete.

該隧道的實體部分將會在路上修建，然后再放到海面。會在海底挖深約100英尺的溝渠。隧道的實體部分以及其他的部分會被放到溝槽處，直到隧道完成。

Finally, the sections will be buried. If built, this tunnel would be about a third as long as the Chunnel rail tunnel, which connects England and France.

最后，所有的部分都將被填埋。如果該隧道建成，將會成為第三個與英吉利海峽鐵路隧道同等長度的隧道。而英吉利海峽鐵路隧道聯(lián)通了英國和法國。

Estimated price tag, $10 billion.

估計造價10億美元。

A bill approving the project has passed in Denmark`s parliament. But some opposition remains in Germany. Germany will finance its own rail and road construction for the tunnel, which the Web site says should be finished by 2024.

批準該項目的一個法案已經(jīng)在丹麥議會上通過。但是德國仍存在反對意見，德國將自己出資修建德國隧道部分的鐵路和公路。網(wǎng)站稱估計在2024年完成。