考研英語時文賞讀（145）：中國最古老的機場正式停航

　　China's oldest airport ceases public operations

　　中國最古老的機場停止民航運營

　　At around 11 pm on Wednesday, as the last flight took off from Beijing Nanyuan Airport, the 109-year-old airport officially retired from serving civil aircraft.

　　周三晚上11點左右，當最后一架飛機從北京南苑機場起飛后，這座擁有109年歷史的機場正式停止了民航運營。

　　All its civil aviation operations will move to Beijing Daxing International Airport, which opened to traffic on the same day.

　　南苑機場所有民航運營將轉(zhuǎn)移至于同一日啟動運營的北京大興國際機場。

　　As the country's first airport, it was built in 1910 and mainly used for military, serving as a training center for air and ground troops.

　　作為中國最早的機場，南苑機場始建于1910年，當時主要用于軍事用途，作為空軍和地面部隊的訓練中心使用。

　　At the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the Nanyuan airport supported a nearby aviation school that had sprung up in 1913, training more than 100 pilots who later became the backbone of China's civil aviation industry. It started serving as both a civilian and military airfield since 1984.

　　清朝（1644-1911）末年，位于南苑機場附近的一所建立于1913年的航校使用這座機場訓練出了百余名飛行員，這些人后來成為了中國民航業(yè)的中堅力量。自1984年起，南苑機場便成為了軍民兩用機場。

　　With its small terminal expanded in 2012, Nanyuan airport became a supplement to Beijing Capital International Airport, to help ease air traffic pressure on its counterpart to the north. In 2018, Nanyuan airport processed 6.51 million passengers in total.

　　2012年，隨著其規(guī)模較小的航站樓進行了擴建，南苑機場成為了北京首都國際機場的補充，緩解了北部的空中交通壓力。2018年，南苑機場旅客吞吐量達651萬人次。

　　To deliver a seamless connection between the two airports, China United Airlines, which was using Nanyuan airport as its main hub, carried out several operating simulations before.

　　為了實現(xiàn)兩個機場間的無縫對接，曾以南苑機場作為主運營基地的中國聯(lián)合航空公司進行了多次模擬運營。

　　On Wednesday, a total of 75 flights took off and landed at the airport — 38 inbound and 37 outbound, accommodating around 11,500 passengers.

　　周三，南苑機場共有75架航班起飛降落（其中38架入境，37架出境），累計服務旅客約11500名。

　　On Tuesday, one day before its closing, people went to the airport to snap pictures or to even take a short flight and keep the plane ticket as a souvenir. The airport will likely be converted into an aviation museum.

　　周二，在停止運營前一天，人們來到這座機場拍照，更有甚者乘坐短程航班以保存機票作為紀念。南苑機場未來很可能會變成一座航空博物館。

　　(全文共254個詞)

　　重難點詞匯：

　　backbone  n. 脊骨，脊柱；支柱；骨氣，毅力；書脊

　　terminal  n. 航空站；終點站；末端；晚期病人 adj. 晚期的；末端的；終點的

　　counterpart  n. 副本；配對物；極相似的人或物

　　seamless  adj. 無縫的；無縫合線的；無傷痕的