【賞析】16-LIGHTNING STORM 本章回顧了2011年溫州動車事故。故事娓娓道來，各色人等紛紛登臺亮相，火車司機，調度員，火車上的一家，鐵道部部長等等。在人物的縱橫交錯中，事故的前前后后，利益的錯綜復雜，構成了一幅金玉其外敗絮其中的圖畫。People were no longer satisfied simply with the fortune delivered by China’s rise. The fall of Great Leap Liu had dramatized a culture of entitlement run amok. He had lost his sense of proportion, and the question was whether the government he served had, too. …china had been built too fast for their own good… the rush to build the railways added a final, lethal factor to the mix大肆發展的同時，人們在反省腳步是不是邁得太快，倉促擴建造成的豆腐渣工程誰來買單？ 背后的腐敗和利益鏈條誰來監管？But to many in China the focus on a single broken part overlooked the likely role of a deeper problem underlying china’s rise: pervasive corruption and a moral disregard that had already led to milk tainted by chemicals reaching the market, shoddy schools in the earthquake zone in Sichuan, and unstable bridges rushed into service to meet political targets………The obsession with speed was all-encompassing.人們發出的質疑句句戳心，響徹心扉…can we drink a glass of milk that is safe? Can we stay in an apartment that will not fall apart? Can we travel roads in our cities that will not collapse?
【表達】
1、 sleeper section 臥鋪車廂
2、 to unveil a plan to do
3、 another train ,bound for Fuzhou …開往
4、 Zhang the dispatcher was juggling ten trains by now. (To juggle lots of different things, such as your work and your family, you try to give enough time or attention to all of them. 盡量兼顧)
5、 His train was high atop a slender viaduct across a flat valley
6、 Insult to the intelligence of the Chinese people 侮辱中國人的智商
7、 Rush的幾個用法：unstable bridges rushed into service/ the rush to build the railways / the job had been rushed
8、 he was wisecracking and volatile 愛說風涼話的（Awisecrackis a clever remark that is intended to be amusing, but is often unkind. 俏皮話; 風涼話）
9、 she was flipping carriages 倒賣車皮
10、 working her connections to get cheap access to coveted freight 動用關系
11、 she received kickbacks from contractors totaling more than three hundred million dollars 回扣
12、 one of the most common rackets was illegal subcontracting / racket : illegal acting to make money 非法賺錢勾當
13、 robbing the beams to put in the pillars 偷梁換柱
14、 the bids were mere theater /they made a show of it 裝樣子
