New cars are nice, but old ones can last a long time, as any third-world taxi-driver knows.
新车固然不错，但旧车可以也维持很长的时间。任何一个第三国家的司机都知道这一点。
Wishing to be polite and friendly, one Beijing taxi-driver recently told me, "You are a bit more than half a Chinese."
不久前，一位司机出于礼貌和友好，对我说道：“你是大半个中国人啦！”
Instead, he had worked for years as a taxi-driver to support the family while Ivetta's mother tried to establish her ballet school.
相反，在艾薇塔的妈妈则试图开设芭蕾舞学校的那些年里，他不得不靠开出租车来养家。
The taxi driver reeled off a list of historic edifices they must not fail to visit.
出租车司机一口气说出了一串他们不应错过参观的历史建筑。
Jodie Foster played a young prostitute in the 1976 film "Taxi Driver".
朱迪·福斯特在1976年的电影《出租车司机》中扮演一名年轻的妓女。
The taxi driver found a foreign visitor's passport and returned it to him at once.
出租车司机发现了一本外国游客的护照，马上还给了他。
I felt very excited yesterday because the taxi driver came back to return the money in person.
昨天我感到很兴奋，因为出租车司机亲自回来还钱。
It's said to be good manners to tip your waiter, taxi driver, hairdresser, doorman and so on.
据说，给服务员、出租车司机、理发师及门卫等支付小费是一种礼貌的行为。
I asked the taxi driver to wait 2 minutes, not 20!
我让出租车司机等我2分钟，而不是20分钟！
Besides driving well, the most important thing a taxi driver needs to know is the streets, and I knew the city well because I had lived in it for a long time.
除了良好的驾驶技术，对出租车司机来说最重要的就是要了解城市的街道。我很了解这座城市，因为我在这里住了很长一段时间。
During this period, which can take two to four years, the would-be taxi driver has to learn the most direct route to every single road and to every important building in London.
想要成为出租车司机的人会花上两到四年的时间了解伦敦每条道路和每座重要建筑的最快的路线。
Even so, when I left the house at 4am this morning, it was still so gloomy that my taxi driver slowed the car because visibility was poor.
即便如此，当我今天凌晨4点离开家时，天空仍是如此阴沉，以致我的出租车司机因为能见度低而放慢了车速。
Unemployed and studying to be a taxi driver, Yuan now has debt collectors from banks turning to his father, Yuan Yizhong, for bill payment.
袁现在没有工作，并正在学习成为一名出租车司机，他把从银行收到的帐单转给他父亲袁益仲来还款。
There were almost no cars on the road, a consequence of petrol shortages, the taxi driver said.
路上几乎看不见一辆车。的士司机说，这是因为现在汽油短缺。
Two days later, in the Pacific Ocean resort of Shimoda, our taxi driver noticed the stamped sticks.
两天后，在太平洋度假胜地下田市，出租车司机注意到我们盖了章的登山杖。
Taxi driver: News about current affairs, documentaries, music, movies, noncommercial ads and so on.
出租车司机：实事新闻、纪录片、音乐、电影和公益广告等等。
Two days later, a taxi driver told me that food was more important to him than freedom.
两天以后，一个出租车司机告诉我，对他来说温饱比自由更重要。
The son of a taxi driver also continues the recent trend of MPs from humble backgrounds filling one of the most gilded posts in British public life.
作为一个出租车司机的儿子，他的当选无疑是顺应了最近出身卑微的人下议院议员获得英国公众生活中耀眼职位的趋势。
And like my Taxi Driver, I don't make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
像我那个出租车司机一样，我不会将其当作人身攻击；我只是微笑，挥手，希望他们能好起来，然后继续自己的生活。
This renders me potent in an online firefight, but means I'm lacking when it comes to giving directions to a Parisian taxi driver.
这使我能在网络游戏的火拼中略胜一筹，但也意味着我没办法给巴黎出租车司机指明去处了。
But Saini's family did not approve of Kumar: As a taxi driver, they said, he did not have the right kind of job.
但是赛尼的家人不同意库马尔，因为他是为一名出租车的司机，他们说，他没有良好类型的工作。
For example, research at the University of London showed that part of the hippocampus of London taxi cab drivers is actually larger than that of a non-taxi driver control group.
例如，伦敦大学的研究表明，部分伦敦的出租车司机的海马体实际比非出租车司机对照组的要大。
"I - like every other taxi driver in Sofia - stop at a green light to make sure nothing is coming the other way," he said.
“像索非亚的其他出租车司机一样，我会在每个绿灯亮起后停在哪里，确认其他车道上没有什么东西冲过来之后才会驶过路口”，他说。
A few years ago, a man from Finland flew into New York and asked a taxi driver to take him downtown.
几年前，一位从芬兰飞到纽约的先生，请一位出租车司机载他进城。
It's not often I accept an offer of late lunch from a taxi driver, but a day spent with Katim, and a week in Gambia, had made me less suspicious than I am in London.
我不会经常接受出租车司机的邀请去吃一顿迟迟的午餐，但是我和卡蒂姆在一起呆了一天时间，在冈比亚度过了一个星期，我已经不像在伦敦那样疑心重重了。
My taxi driver last night, a 50-something male, told me that he and his wife cook in every night he's not working: vegetables, lean meat and sometimes fish.
昨天晚上，我的出租车司机，一个50岁左右的男人告诉我，他和他的妻子晚上不工作的时候每天都自己做饭：通常都是一些蔬菜，瘦肉，有时候还有些鱼。
Below: the tension of Travis Bickle, keeping his television perpetually balanced on the edge of smashing to the floor: "Taxi Driver" (Martin Scorsese, 1976).
下图：特拉维斯和摇摆的电视机：“出租车司机”(马丁·斯科塞斯，1976)。
"A Palestinian taxi driver once told me that he likes the writing on the wall, even though he can't read it," he says.
他说，一个巴勒斯坦出租车司机告诉我他喜欢墙上的作品，尽管他没有读过。
That peace was cruelly shattered today when Derrick Bird, a self-employed taxi driver, is alleged to have gone on a shooting spree.
在今天，这份平静被残酷地打破了，自雇出租车司机德里克·伯德据报制造了一起枪击事件。
That peace was cruelly shattered today when Derrick Bird, a self-employed taxi driver, is alleged to have gone on a shooting spree.
在今天，这份平静被残酷地打破了，自雇出租车司机德里克·伯德据报制造了一起枪击事件。
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