2015年CRI Chinese Investors Likely to Win UK's High-speed Rail Project: UK Expert

 

It is being reported Chinese rail giant CRRC is going to join the bidding¹ for Britain's second high-speed railway project.

The plan is to link London with the northern British city of Birmingham.

The UK parliament² has already approved the first stage of the line's construction, which is set to start in 2017.

It's a project said to be worth 10's of billions of dollars.

For more on the possibility of China's involvement in the project, and the economic ties between China and the UK, CRI's Wang Mengzhen spoke³ earlier with John Ross, senior⁴ fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University.

1 bidding   

n.（尤指拍卖中的）出价；请求；投标；召唤v.出价，投标( bid的现在分词 )；恳求；命令；说（问候话）

参考例句：

• There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
• Two syndicates are bidding for the contract. 两家财团正在竞投该合约。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 Parliament   

n.议会，国会

参考例句：

• She won a seat in Parliament at the election.她在选举中赢得了议会中的席位。
• The drug was banned by an act of parliament.议会的法案明令禁止该药品。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 senior   

adj.年长的；资格较老的，地位较高的；n.年长者，前辈；大学高年级学生

参考例句：

• My brother is senior to me by two years.我哥哥比我年长两岁。
• They are senior students.他们是高年级学生。