"Our process is like taking a Ford Pinto, pouring on this chemical coating, and turning it into a Ferrari," Dr. Keefer said.
“我们的进程，比如到福特，浇此化学涂料，并把它变成法拉利，”博士基弗说。
The Ford Pinto was a famously bad automobile, but worse still might be Ford's handling of the safety concerns surrounding the '70s-era subcompact.
福特的平托是一款糟糕得出名的汽车，而更糟糕的可能还是福特公司对这款70年代次紧凑型汽车的安全隐患所做的处理。
Some cost-benefit analyses incorporate a measure for the value of life. One of the most famous of these involved the Ford Pinto case. Did any of you read about that?
有些成本效益分析确实计算了生命的价值，其中最著名的是福特平托的案例。
The suggestion that squeaky-clean Toyota's behaviour may have resembled that of Ford and GM, which in the distant past covered up problems with the Pinto and the Corvair, is especially wounding.
有人暗示，丰田“无可指责”的行为可能类似福特和通用汽车公司过去掩盖其平托和考威尔车的问题时的举动，这样的暗示对丰田极为不利。
The suggestion that squeaky-clean Toyota's behaviour may have resembled that of Ford and GM, which in the distant past covered up problems with the Pinto and the Corvair, is especially wounding.
有人暗示，丰田“无可指责”的行为可能类似福特和通用汽车公司过去掩盖其平托和考威尔车的问题时的举动，这样的暗示对丰田极为不利。
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