有同学问到,“汽车单双号限行”怎么翻译?大家可以用odd-even(单双号) alternate restriction ,"odd-even" traffic restriction ,traffic control by license plate number(车牌号)...都行。
看一篇CCTV的报道做参考: Fewer vehicles bring smooth traffic flow in Beijing
Beijing motorists are now restricted to using their vehicles on alternate days of the week. A new license plate-based even-odd traffic regulation kicked in on Sunday to ease congestion and reduce pollution over the next two months.
A normal Sunday morning in Beijing -- but with a difference. Traffic flow is better as there are fewer vehicles on the streets.
Quite a change for a city where taking to the road is a true test of patience. Now the mood is much different.
"No traffic jam at all."
For the next two months, car owners can only drive on alternate days which are determined by whether their license plates end with even or odd numbers. This is expected to remove 45 percent of the city's 3.3 million cars from the streets.
Some take a smooth drive on Sunday, as their plate number ends an even digit.
But others are forced to make alternate plans. And the public transportation is their first choice.
One local resident said "My car has an odd plate number, so I can't drive my car for the day. I decide to travel by bus because it's convenient, and the public transportation of the city is well-developed."
An additional four million people are expected to use public transport and the city is ready for that.
再来一篇权威的新华社的报道:
Beijing to continue vehicle restriction with new rules BEIJING, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will adopt another vehicle restriction rule after the current one expires next week, municipal authorities have said. A new two-year vehicle restriction will become effective on April 11, right after the current one-year restriction ends, a spokesman with the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau said Friday.
The new restriction will be identical to the current one, he added.
The current restriction bans private cars in Beijing's urban areas one work-day a week.
The restriction is based on the last digit on the license plate. For example, vehicles with a last plate digit of 2 or 7 must be off the road on Monday. Details of the restriction can be found in a bulletin posted on the website of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau (bjjtgl.gov.cn).
More than 90 percent of 2,562 surveyed Beijing residents, including 1,549 car owners and 1,013 who didn't own a car, supported the restriction, according to a recent survey of polling company Horizon Research.
Among the car owners, 87.6 percent approved of the restriction, while the approval rate of non-car owners was 94.8 percent, the survey showed.
Most of the surveyed supported the restriction because it helped to relieve traffic jams and benefits the environment, according to the survey.
The average driving speed in Beijing at rush hours has risen by about 15 percent after the vehicle restrictions were implemented, said Guo Jifu, head of the Beijing Transportation Research Center.