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2--True. With the extension of railways and highways, and the improvement of safety and capacity of airplanes, ships and boats have been giving place to trains, planes and automobiles.
 
1--I read in the newspapers that the passenger liners from Shanghai to Ningbo and Dalian have been out of business; and the liners up and down the Yangtze River have been reduced by 70%.
 
2--The pace of life of people is now getting faster and faster, so the speed of ships and boats seems to be so slow. I think it may be the reason why people don't like to travel by boat.
 
1--But the most of the transoceanic cargo transportation is still carried by boat.
 
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注解：
 
1.transportation運(yùn)輸  
2.extension延伸  
3.improvement改善 

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譯文：
 
1--如今，輪船在交通中的重要性大不如從前了。
2--的確如此。隨著鐵路與高速公路的延伸、飛機(jī)安全性和運(yùn)力的提高，輪船已經(jīng)讓位給火車、飛機(jī)和汽車了。
1--我從報(bào)紙上看到，從上海開往寧被、大連的客輪已經(jīng)歇業(yè)了，而長(zhǎng)江沿線的客輪量也已經(jīng)減少了70%。
2--人們的生活節(jié)奏如今變得越來(lái)越快，所以輪船的速度就顯得太慢了。我想這大概就是人們不愛乘船旅行的原因。
1--但是如今大部分的跨洋貨運(yùn)還是靠輪船。